LA TERRE’: My Likeness in Relics

In LA TERRE’: My Likeness in Relics, performance artist Luis Javier Murillo Zúñiga dares to showcase an abstract glimpse into the making of an iconic character—its back story, its lore, shredded in tragedy and joy, shaped by a fervent desire of a queer dream belonging to the stage. Beginning in the small countryside town of San Isidro de El General de Perez Zeledon, Costa Rica, where religion and societal moral consciousness prevail, this journey crosses to the theatrical environment of high-capitalism, with its performed riches and servitude, in the Hamptons, New York, and then takes on to Austria—land of hostility. Through LA TERRE’, Luis delves into this transcontinental melodrama with the divine lens of „La Performancia“. Working both as a comment on „western european aesthetics and the institutionalized idea of what fine art is“ and creating a space beyond, the video installation and white cube situation serve as space for a performance by LA TERRE' on the evening of the opening, a weaving alternation of dramatic reading, classical opera and reggaeton. Luis Javier Murillo Zúñiga & Laura Wichmann