Stone
I am a stone
I do not feel the blows
the humiliation
the lewd stares
the bodies above mine
the hate.
I am a stone
inside me
the history of the world.

My body remains immobile, covered in coal, like a stone. Two volunteers and someone from the audience urinate on my stone body.

Video Victor Bautista & Henry Castillo.
Photography Julio Pantoja & Mariene Ramírez-Cancio.

(8vo. Encuentro Hemisférico del Centro de Estudios de Arte y Política. São Paulo, Brazil. 2013)