Ñam Ñam

Ñam Ñam is a collaborative work by Anna Pasco and Gonzalo Castro-Colimil that interweaves sculpture, performance, and publication. The project is based on the idea of symbiosis as a cultural principle, where the existence of the Global South and the Global North is sustained through relations of interdependence that traverse bodies, territories, and memories.
In the exhibition space, a set of storage and transport boxes contains all the ingredients and materials necessary for the performance. During the action, these boxes are opened and moved, revealing their multiple character: they are at once containers, sculptures, and support tables. This condition marks a central statement of the work: an object is not defined by a single function, but by the multiplicity of its states. Their translucent lids allow one to see what they hold inside, while the engravings that cover them evoke ecological, territorial, and bodily networks, unfolding a sensitive cartography in which knowledge, food, and memories circulate.

The performative dimension took place in a live call between Pasco, from Munich, and Castro-Colimil, from Temuko. This action makes the union between the Global South and the North tangible, a consciousness of other territories that emerges through co-presence at a distance. Within this framework, a mayonnaise was prepared with four ingredients that hybridize Mapuche and Bavarian cosmologies, served alongside one of the potato varieties from the island of Chiloé. This preparation was offered to the audience for tasting, generating a moment of hospitality and communality.

The work is accompanied by a publication that prolongs and expands this dialogue, functioning as a space of memory and reflection that places the experience in circulation beyond the moment of the performance.

Sculpture, performance and publication, 2025