VERSOS DE PORQUERIA (Verses of Filth)

In Verses of Filth (2021), a disoriented Mesoamerican deity has become a scavenger digging in the wasted land in search of residues of fragmented bodies and cultural debris. Together with a gang of vultures, she sparks a residual insurrection of a brigade of undomesticated arms and underworld creatures who reclaim to become undead in search for touch and pleasure. In Mesoamerican worldviews, vultures are sacred creatures who access the underworld when they enter the head into a corpse. They are the great purifiers who eat the debris, what is rotten and death. The arms raising from the tomb insist on clenching into a fist as a sign of protest, but on the other hand they try to connect with others, in the search of caressing others, repairing, documenting, snapping and reading words that give an account of their existence. The title Verses of Filth refers to a Nahua funerary chant, Tzocuicatl, which was an eschatological ritual aiming to drain the filth and stench of the death body as well as accompanying the pain caused by the death of a beloved person.