2022

The word tumulus comes from the Latin tumulus, translated as "elevation" or "tomb raised from the earth". A tumulus is a mound of earth and stones raised over one or more tombs, forming a sort of "burial chamber in which both the dead warrior and his weapons rested". Sometimes they house the burial of numerous individuals.

Túmulo is a performance piece that reflects on the persistent attempt to culminate a suspended mourning, attending to the need to "symbolically lay someone to rest", in an exercise of unfolding, trying to invoke in one's own body that other absent body. It poses a parallelism between the process of constructing an offering and the reiterative act of burial. This work seeks to pay homage to the individual and collective existence of "what is absent, what has been made to disappear".

The mound eventually takes the form of a hill, being both a means of remembrance or memory of someone, as the simulation of a geographical feature, a silent relief without inscriptions, no names, no epitaphs, silent testimony of an absence.

In this action I remain lying on the ground, partially covered by a mound of flowers and aromatic plants.