ABSTRACT
The following text is contextualized in the Chilean territory, a country where the water was privatized and extracted from its natural sources and sold as a marketable good in 1981 during Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship. Due to the aforementioned, in many territories of the country various hydrological problems have manifested, which have unleashed a climate and humanitarian crisis due to the lack of this vital element. From my artistic practice and the Mapuche world view, another way of relating to the waters is proposed, a way that is not related to extractivism but one that centers the waters as a non-binary power that defies the rigidity in which we were raised. By using the color blue, a sacred color to the Mapuche world, the waters become marked by this chroma, proposing other ways of affective relationships to life: the ways of the waters.
