Amanda Piña

Divina Presencia + Bones

Person wearing white bowing in front of a white screen.

Amanda Piña's performance will take place on 7th June at 18:00 (tickets required, tickets are free) The performance is partly outdoors, meeting point: MDT’s upper entrance, Slupskjulsvägen 32, MDT.

Piña's exhibition Divina Presencia will be on display throughout the festival at the below times in Studio 2.

We 7.6.2023, 20:00-23:00, MDT

Th 8.6.2023, 18:00-00:00, MDT

Fr 9.6.2023, 18:00-00:00, MDT

Sa 10.6.2023, 14:00-00:00, MDT

Su 11.6.2023, 12:00-22:00, MDT

Free admission

Serpent-like water hoses weave through the vegetal undergrowth of the forest and cling to branches, bringing water from its source to distant households. Decentralized and anarchic, the entangled black tubes symbolize the quest for clean drinking water. Words of gratitude are murmured. Water flows: gushing from the mountain as a waterfall or tamed to a constant trickle from the tap. Starting from the ruins of an ancestral site in Mexico where water was collected and channeled, we trace the ebb and flow of the water to Sweden, where mountains yield a seemingly endless supply of fresh spring water to the cities. Words of gratitude are murmured.


Featuring textile and video works developed in Las Pilas, Mexico, "Divina Presencia" is an installation initiating  dialogue between two different, seemingly unrelated geographies, which on closer inspection share a sensitive and threatened biodiversity, and a struggle for the same. The exhibition forms part of Amanda Piña’s ongoing work The School of Mountains and Water and is related to the fifth volume of research on Endangered Human Movements titled Danzas Climáticas. The work deals with how we can understand mountains as living bodies that are central to the re-creation of water as life, and shares First Nations understandings of water as sacred and sentient, revered and acknowledged through ritual practice. 


The performance "Bones", awakening from within the mountain, is a ritual for contemplation of our heritage – bones are not merely an"estral, but also carry knowledge and wisdom from every form of constellation and origin of its past, beyond the stars.  


Amanda Piña

Amanda Piña [CL/MX/AU] lives and works between Vienna and Mexico City. Her artistic work is concerned with the decolonization of art, focusing on the political and social power of movement, temporarily dismantling ideological separations between contemporary and traditional, human and animal, nature and culture. Coming from extractivist contexts like Chile and Mexico, where desertification and water scarcity caused by Capitalocene-induced climate change are already a reality, the artist proposes to refresh our experience of and relation to water through works in different media aimed at re-awakening ancestral knowledge and memory.

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Choreography

Thanks to

Ma’arakame Katira, Michel Jimenez and Rebecca Chentinell.