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Neyen Pailamilla fka Paula

Pronouns: They/them

Date and place of birth: b. 1988, Chile

Current location: Zürich, Switzerland

Year(s) of residency and/or fellowship: 2022, Democracy Machine Fellow; 2023, Democracy Machine Fellow

Neyen Pailamilla is a Mapuche artist and a member of the Mapuche collective Rangiñtulewfü and Yene Revista, which deeply informs their work in performance, textile practices, and audiovisual formats. Their practice includes “positioning the territory of the body as a place of visibility of a struggle, a conflict, a discomfort” and art actions that create juxtapositions between gender, race and class from “the possibility of an anticolonial gaze.”