FILLKE PEWMA - Installation
Wereldmusem Leiden (Netherlands)
November 2025 – January 2026
The installation was on display from 8 November 2025 at Wereldmuseum Leiden. The artwork explored dreaming as a form of knowledge production among the Mapuche. Through the transformation of archival photographs—originally taken during the colonization of Indigenous territories—into woven and cyanotype-based artworks, the installation reimagined the relationships between memory, land, and future-making.
Developed through collaborative research and creative practice, this process has brought together Indigenous artists, scholars, and museum professionals to examine how photography, textiles, and restoration can serve as tools for care, reciprocity, and decolonial engagement.
The installation and accompanying events were organised in collaboration with Wereldmuseum Leiden, the Mapuche FOLIL Foundation, the Kaikoesie Foundation, and the Indigenous Knowledge Centre (IKC).
The programme included a public lecture (7 November 2025) and a practical workshop (8 November 2025), offering opportunities to reflect on the ethics of collaboration and the material reactivation of colonial archives.
Exhibition design
Jose Pérez, installation and biomaterials
Katerina Quintulem Quintulem, installation and cyanotypes
Alejandro Orellana, AR and digital design
Eleonora Giannini, installation design
Colectivo EPEW Foundation
Further details: https://leiden.wereldmuseum.nl/nl/zien-en-doen/tentoonstellingen/kunstinstallatie-filke-pewma
FILLKE PEWMA - Theatre performance
Teatre Tantarantana, Barcelona (Spain)
November 14, 2025
Chem pewmaymi? What did you dream? The performance FILLKE PEWMA takes place in Santiago, Chile, in the year 2092. It has been raining for 40 days and 40 nights, the emergency has left several areas of the country cut off, and the Mapocho River overflows to reach out to its lost brother, who disappeared during the Spanish colony. The last survivors seek one last chance to stay alive, while they remember their dreams and the ancient tales that foretold the flood.
“Will we survive the waters?” As in a pewma, the audience became fish and, guided by different characters through time, went downstream while the Mapocho realised its dream of recovering its course.
The play was staged at the theatre Tantarantana in Barcelona on November 14, 2025, as part of the festival Barcelona OFF realised by Santiago OFF.
FILLKE PEWMA - Installation
URBAN DREAMS / FUTURE CITIES — Exhibition
The Wave Foyer, Sheffield (United Kingdom)
18 May – 11 June 2026
The installation is part of the exhibition Urban Dreams / Future Cities and will be on display from 18 May 2025 at The Wave Foyer of the University of Sheffield. Bringing together the works of Mapuche artists of the Epew Collective and Roberto Monte-Mor’s photographic archives from the Brazilian Amazon in the 1980s, the exhibition invites reflection on how we see, dream, and imagine the future of cities. Through the encounter between Indigenous creative practice and documentary photography, the exhibition explores how visual arts, traditional weaving techniques, and digital installations can open up alternative urban imaginaries and ways of thinking about space, community, and possibility.
Developed through artist-academic collaboration, the project brings together artists and scholars from Chile and Brazil to examine how creative practice and archival research can serve as tools for radical urban thinking, storytelling, and collective imagination.
The exhibition and accompanying events are organised by Olivia Casagrande, Junia Mortimer, and Beth Perry, in collaboration with The Urban Institute and the Epew Collective, and are made possible thanks to the School of Geography and Planning, the Urban Studies Foundation, the ESRC, and the Urban Institute.
The programme includes an exhibition opening (21 May 2025), a hybrid public talk (21 May 2025), and a creative workshop (22 May 2025), offering opportunities to reflect on artist-academic collaboration, alternative urban futures, and the creative possibilities of storytelling and collage-making.
Exhibition design
Jose Pérez, installation and biomaterials
Katerina Quintulem Quintulem, installation and cyanotypes
Alejandro Orellana, AR and digital design
Colectivo EPEW Foundation
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