The Mapuche tribes of Argentina do not have a written language,
 
instead they make use of many symbols (often called iconography) to
 
communicate. 


My ancestors, the Argentinean Mapuches, have for thousands of years 

used artistic designs and symbols to convey both messages and stories.


Many Mapuche icons, such as Star, Spiritual Human, Hug, Plant, 

The World, Community and others look very similar to computer icons,

such as Power, Command, Bluetooth, USB, Play, Pause and Ethernet. 

Digital symbols are the road signs for our daily life – those instantly 

recognized icons you press when you interact with your computer. 

The Mapuche people often wrote their symbols on their hands.

Digital describes: “of or relating to the fingers“ as well as “electronic 

technology that generates data".

The body imagery in my work, the fingers, relate to the definition of 

“digital”, they present a combination of computer and mapuche icons. They 

are both a dramatization of the colonial period and the irreparable 

violence inflicted on the indigenous peoples of Argentina.

More than a meditation on the colonialism’s aftermath, my focus is the 

collision of indigenous and computer languages. My work does not show indigenous language in 

opposition to digital language, but promotes the collaboration between the 

two.

My own clothes make up the bulk of the material I use in my textile work.

I ask my community to donate textiles instead of discarding them.