CHÜÜYÜ WÜLACH - Meseta de Somuncurá
The Meseta de Somuncurá / Chüüyü Wülach, which in the Günün a yajüch language means "sonorous stones", is located in the extensive Argentinean Patagonia and is a territory full of sounds and conflicts.
The wind extracts whistles from its stones, and the collective memory stirs the voices stored in them, there are words pulsating to be spoken and stories begging to be retold. At the same time, territorial conflicts and social and economic disputes with Indigenous peoples constitute an open wound from the moment Argentina proclaims itself as a nation, provoking adverse impacts and the invisibility of the Günün a küna and Mapuche-Tehuelche peoples.
The exhibition that opens in the City of Buenos Aires, in the La Rueca hall of El Obrador Centro Creativo located in Bartolomé Mitre 1670, between September 8 and November 4, 2021, is composed of four nuclei called cameras, which narrate and reconstruct through multiple registers (audiovisual, photographic, sound, performative and testimonial), the life of the Günün a küna people.
The exhibition proposes to explore various aspects involved in this complex territory under study and to generate a space of memory, political reflection and sensitive connection around the communities and the rural territory.
The challenge is to make history, culture and their projection for future generations visible and to give value to them.
Within the framework of the exhibition, there will be a series of talks by community authorities and Indigenous Peoples' representatives who, with their own voice, will develop the crucial issues related to language, land and Indigenous rights, in order to broaden and enrich the perspective on the themes exhibited.
