Transubstanciación (Transubstantiation)

Performance

Experiencias de la Carne.
Lima, Perú

Convite en el Cuartel.
Barquisimeto, Venezuela 
2015


According to the Catholic Church, transubstantiation is the mystical process in which the wine and the bread turn into the blood and the flesh of Christ. With this performance, I wanted to express the impossibility of the individual to fit with models of behavior imposed by religion. In the performance, I take off my clothes and after tie them on my waist, I disassemble clothe hangers and then wrap them around my head. I try to bear the pain until I am done repeating the action with all of them. This performance alludes to martyrdom culture of Christianty.