« Archivo de los sueños » : Francisco Huichaqueo, Political cinema and dream archives from Mapuche territory (Chile)

Natalia Arcos Salvo lives and works between Santiago (Chile) and San Cristóbal de las Casas (Chiapas, Mexico).
Since 2002, she has been a curator of visual arts and has organized more than twenty exhibitions at biennials, art fairs, and institutions in Chile and abroad. In 2005, she was recognized as Chile’s youngest curator, and in 2011, she won first prize in the curatorial competition held by the Gabriela Mistral Gallery, a public institution.
From 2008 to 2013, she served as programming director for ARTV, the Chilean television channel specializing in art.
In 2013, she founded GIAP (Research Group on Art and Politics) in Chiapas, Mexico, which conducts research, organizes exhibitions, and publishes on the aesthetics and poetics of Zapatismo. Since 2017, she has directed the CASA GIAP residency center, located in San Cristóbal de las Casas.
She has worked as an art critic, researcher, and teacher for various media outlets, platforms, and universities. She is currently the professor in charge of the course “Other Aesthetics for Other Worlds” at the University of Santiago in Chile.
She has published in Mexico, Spain, and the United States, alongside authors such as Enrique Dussel, Alessandra Pomarico, and TJ Demos.

Francisco Huichaqueo Francisco Huichaqueo (Wallmapu, Chile, 1977) is a Mapuche artist, filmmaker, and curator, as well as a professor at the School of Visual Arts at the University of Concepción. His work is characterized by a deep connection to the Mapuche worldview, focused on recovering, repairing, and empowering indigenous memory and culture. Through his artistic practices, Huichaqueo aims to challenge colonial narratives, promote cultural resistance, and strengthen the link with the land and ancestors. https://www.huichaqueo.cl.