Instructions and Possibilities to Scare a Mountain
River Claure and Mafe Moscoso initiated a conversation whose starting point was a mountain and a volcano. The mountain is the subject of River Claure's film Instructions and Possibilities to Scare a Mountain, a ritual and speculative audiovisual project created in collaboration with the inhabitants and former miners of Cerro Rico de Potosí in the Bolivian Andes. During the colonial era, it was thought to be the richest source of silver in human history. Since then, the land has been depleted, and only the towns built around the industry and the promises of modernity remain.
The volcano is Cotopaxi in Ecuador, which lends its name to a recently published science fiction fable by Mafe Moscoso in which the characters are interplanetary migratory animals that embark on a circular journey beginning inside the crater and extending through geological layers until they reach the Mediterranean. The fable employs the cyclical sense of time typical of Andean ontologies, in which beginning and end are intrinsically connected.
The session will be B2B (back‑to‑back), a dialogue weaving together Mafe Moscoso's poems with River Claure's images after a brief introduction.
River Claure
Is a Bolivian photographer and visual artist who lives and works in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Born into a family of migrants from a small community in the Andean highlands, Claure grew up in the city, experiencing the tensions between his Indigenous roots and the urban realities of the early 21st century. Claure is known for his meticulously constructed portraits and his magically infused landscapes. His work questions both dominant notions of cultural identity and the role of the photographic image in shaping our idea of reality. His work has been exhibited in various platforms and institutions around the world, including the 60th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale.
Mafe Moscoso
Writes, researches, and experiments in/between/with the entanglements of ethnography and fiction. She has published KOTOPAXI, una fábula sci-fi equinoccial (SDKS Ediciones), La Santita (Consonni), Hostal España. El gesto hospedante, la etnografía hospedante (Mr. Griffin), as well as the poetry books Desintegrar el hechizo, versitos anticoloniales and Crónica roja (La Reci), among others. In 2023 she received the Fundación Banco Sabadell/Hangar artistic research grant, and in 2024-2025 she was a research fellow at the Center for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies at Heidelberg University. She is a comadre of LAAV_ and resonates with the neoquipucamayocs in the Andes.
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Place
Fundació Joan Miró
Dates
Saturday 11 April 2026, at 11 am
Price
3€, free entrance for the Friends of the Fundació Joan Miró
