P U E R C O explores the symbolic relationship between women and money as exchange values. Using 150 gold chocolate coins evokes a childhood gesture and unfolds a ritual of transformation rooted in the Mexican tradition of the bolo, where coins are tossed to celebrate a person’s birth. Set in stillness and obscurity, the performance reflects on the supposed “evolution” between the concepts of product and property within collective imaginaries, approaching the dual reality of being both body, subject, and object.

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Drawing on Horst Kurtnitzky’s The Libidinal Structure of Money, the piece dialogues with the historical evolution of money and its symbolic embodiments, from pigs and women in various cultures to the coined currency of today.

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The work received the Premio a la Creación Escénica Interdisciplinar in 2018 (Realizando Ideas & Un Teatro) in Mexico City.

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