Catrileo + Carrión

The Mapuche Community (Chile) is a space for articulating reciprocity, informed by the practices of creation and investigation incorporated into multidisciplinary work straddling textiles and audiovisual, editorial, and curatorial material and community politics. The Community seeks forms of social and artistic relationships that transcend a heteropatriarcal regime. Consisting of Antonio Catrileo Araya, Constanza Catrileo Araya, Malku Catrileo Araya, Alejandra Carrión Lira, and Manuel Carrión Lira, the group declares themselves as non-binary and the work they are developing as one of the pillars of research on the tradition of epupillan beings in Mapuche society—people who do not identify with heteronormative behavior, positioning themselves as free beings who refuse the violent repression of coloniality. In practice, the Catrilon+Carrión Community emphasizes Mapuche weaving, a source of ancestral knowledge. Formed in 2016, the Community currently resides in Pikunmapu/Qullasuyu (Valparaíso Region in Chile) and on Kumeyaay Land (San Diego, California).