The seminar/lab of the exhibition The Future is Gone: Renegade Anti-Futurism is holding its third open session on Thursday, 30 June, starting at 8 pm.

On this occasion we will be accompanied by the Mapuche artist Maria Loreto Moreno Rayman from Wallmapu and the Mayan artist Benvenuto Chavajay from Guatemala. Both artists are invited to answer the questions that concern us in our research and exhibition project: How do you imagine the world would have been if Europe (as a trope and as a project) had never existed? How do you imagine the world if Europe (as a trope or as a project) disappeared? We are interested in knowing how they deconstruct the modern Eurocentric narrative on the basis of their artistic work.

We will reflect on the role of art within the Mayan and Mapuche onto-epistemologies, its conception and experience of time, and the way in which this conception is antagonistic with the finite, linear time of modernity.

Maria Loreto Moreno Rayman, Neyen. A Mapuche zomo of the Chukauco lof, Ignacio Moreno community (Wallmapu), a zamife (vegetable weaver), artist-researcher, cultural manager and shoemaker-seamstress who writes and creates territory for multiversal subjectivities from her body.

Benvenuto Chavajay, Ixtetela. A social worker who uses metaphor and analogy to dust off history and activate memory through the crystallization of art, an “ex-sculptor” by conscience, a “de-painter” by disobedience, he “re-frames” and underlines the ethical code of ancestry, and he is a rxajaiil (tz’utujil). He studied at the Rafael Rodríguez Padilla National School of Plastic Arts in Guatemala. He received a scholarship in 2002 from the National University of Costa Rica, and in 2013 he obtained a CIFO scholarship from the Cisneros Foundation in Miami, United States. He has held various collective exhibitions in Guatemala and abroad.