Mauricio Freyre

Errores Fundamentales (performance, grupo de lectura) - (Fundamental Errors (Performance Art, Reading Group))

Errores Fundamentales  explores, through performance art and film, the genealogy of an almost extinct Andean-Amazonian tree: the cinchona (or quinine tree), whose antimalarial properties played a decisive role in the expansion of European colonialism. The project examines how Western natural and scientific history has also been constructed on errors, omissions, and operational fictions, proposing a critical reading of these narratives through a live performance piece. The artist will present an expanded version of the piece, guiding the audience through various historical and contemporary scenarios using a script of voices activated by a reading group.

Bio

Mauricio Fernando Freyre Mendieta (Lima, 1976) is a Madrid-based Peruvian artist and filmmaker. His practice is situated at the intersection of film, installation, and performance art. Driven by research, his work questions the apparatuses of visibility that are capable both of producing knowledge and of concealing, distorting, or establishing specific versions of history. Utilising historical materials, critical fictions, and montage operations, he examines the blind spots of colonial modernity alongside the material and symbolic architectures that underpin Western knowledge production. His recent projects have been presented at MNCARS (Madrid), the Círculo de Bellas Artes (Madrid), the Marseilles International Film Festival, and the Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival (IDFA). In 2019, his installation Interspecies Architecture was presented at the 17th Venice Biennale of Architecture.