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For the first time, our cycle of living arts and creative processes occurs abroad. This July 4—5, an abbreviated version of Ventana al Sur will be part of the 42nd edition of BELLUARD BOLLWERK.
'Looking South, Encountering Latitudes' is the premise of this special export curatorship. One of the interests of Belluard Bollwerk is the exchange with knowledges and practices of the South. With our long term Avanzada Sur programme, 4 artists were invited to develop their practice and relationships with land and nature through the engagement with different territories, entities, communities, and their wisdoms. Together, we organised a special edition of Ventana al Sur, a platform dedicated to these artists that work around earth and soil, plants and seeds, smells and fermentation. Natalia Montoya, Andrea Solano, Taina Villalobos and Mailza Bernard spent a week-long residency in Fribourg, connecting with local practitioners and artists in preparation of their performances at the festival.
Additionally, this year's edition featured a panel discussion on Cuerpo Sur's international exchange practices, while the festival's closing performance was led by our associate artist Josefina Cerda with her work "Feral."
The 2025 festival takes place from June 26 to July 5 in Fribourg, Switzerland.
MAILZA BERNARD (BRA)
RECORDATORIO
MAILZA BERNARD
(BRA)
Mailza Bernard is a multi-media artist and ceramicist, born in São Paulo and living in Tiradentes, MG. Her work integrates ceramics, digital art, audiovisual and performance, exploring sensoriality, motherhood, gender and eco-feminism. She worked as a cultural producer and curator on the Terrapuã project (2018/2019) and presented O Berro do Barro at the International Ceramic Culture Festival in Bogotá. She has taken part in group exhibitions in São João del Rei and Tiradentes and has had solo shows at Metaverso Voxel and the UFSJ Cultural Centre. She has deepened her research into art and technology through national and international residencies, such as American Arts Incubator, Ina Dao and Bienal Black Brazil.
RECORDATORIO
Recordatório proposes an encounter at the riverbed of the Sarine. Among jars of essences and clay objects, the performer manipulates aromas while a soundscape embraces the environment, mixing narratives around the colonisation of smell, memories and the relationship between body and territory. As words, movement and sounds develop, the performance activates memories, desires, and fears: Are we afraid to surrender to the uncontrollable universe of smells?
ANDREA SOLANO (ECU)
¿DÓNDE SE FERMENTA LA CHICHA?
ANDREA SOLANO
(ECU)
Andrea Solano is an interdisciplinary artist from the Equatorial Territory. She has studied performing arts and is a textile manager and artisan. Her creative and research processes are related to traditional fermentation, the imaginaries, and the technologies that are created and imagined to sustain these processes.
WHERE IS CHICHA FERMENTED?
With ¿Dónde se fermenta la chicha? Andrea Solano invites audiences to listen to, taste, and share ferments as an action that triggers knowledge and memories stored in our bodies. As the performer interacts with the jars of ferments, we find ourselves in a concert of emanating sounds and smells that fill the scene. Emerging from the Andes and Amazonia regions, chicha, its ecosystems and technologies are introduced here as a form of resistance to civilized, antibacterial, and capitalist discourses.
TAINA VILLALOBOS (CHI)
MEMORIAS DEL SUELO
TAINA VILLALOBOS
(CHI)
Taina Villalobos is an organic seed caretaker based in Santiago de Chile, visual artist graduated from the University of Chile with a degree in sculpture. She works combining different media and disciplines: installation, photography, audiovisual and performance. Her artistic work involves the compilation of collective memories, the questioning of the human relationship with food, endangered plant species and the documentation of the networks that sustain agro-ecological knowledge. Her work is distinguished by a processual approach that integrates the collaborative and the relational, seeking to bring the question of food sovereignty to the local art scene. In doing so, it seeks to contribute to the questioning of the world's perspective by encouraging a reflection on our cultural, environmental and social practices.
MEMORIAS DEL SUELO
In Memorias del Suelo, seeds are exchanged, sown, cultivated and harvested, disseminating their shapes and colors through live arts. While offering her seed collection, Taina invites audiences to share and exchange the seeds that they bring. Looking at the relationship between humanity and nature, the work is interested in building connection through storing and preserving the multitude of seeds.
Bring your own seeds to share!
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NATALIA MONTOYA (CHI)
JAGUAR EN FLOR
NATALIA MONTOYA
(CHI)
Natalia Montoya, an Aymara visual artist, has developed a multidisciplinary practice that draws on the traditions and cosmovisions of her own community. With a master's degree in visual arts, her work explores materiality and affectivity, seeking to re-signify ancestral stories in the contemporary context. Her work has been exhibited in various national and international contemporary art spaces, including participation in group shows at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Santiago de Chile and the Climate Biennial in Vienna.
JAGUAR EN FLOR
Jaguar en flor is a performance that explores the healing properties of power plants and ancestral inter-species relationships. Using the body as a medium, a collaborative dialogue is established with other beings. While reciting a text that links the healing qualities of plants with a biographical event of the incarnation of a jaguar, a braid is revealed as a connective technology between worlds that invite to reflect on the slogan ‘waranka waranka kujtasiñani’ and ideas of eternal return.
JOSEFINA CERDA (CHI)
FERAL
Josefina Cerda is a Chilean performance artist, sound designer, and NSFW creator. Her work explores the relationship between body, sexuality, sound, and fantasy, addressing pleasure, love, and power dynamics through a critical and sensorial approach.
Her practice includes virtual sex work and the exploration of domination and BDSM in intimate, professional, and performative contexts. She is currently a producer and associate artist at Fundación Cuerpo Sur and collaborates with collectives such as Complejo Conejo, Cómo se Recuerda un Crimen, Radioafectiva, and Teatro del Sonido.
She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Theater Acting, a Master’s degree in Art Theory and History, and diplomas in Sound Art and Archival Studies, grounding her interdisciplinary approach in both academic research and embodied practice.
FERAL
FERAL is a vocal-sound performance that delves into the processes of sexualization, objectification, and the empowerment of personal pleasure. Over the course of 30 minutes, the performer weaves a narrative of her journey—from a hypersexualized childhood to an adulthood where pleasure finds new avenues of exploration through domination, sex work, and BDSM. The performance unfolds in an intimate setting, featuring a live sound recording and playback setup alongside other sex technologies that accompany the storytelling. FERAL is a defense of the object over the human.