Todo nuestro amor es un acto de herejía is a collective poetic ritual created from pieces in the “America” collection of the Museu Etnològic i de Cultures del Món, reinterpreted through migrant memory and creative writing.

Challenge:

To reread the museum’s heritage collections from a critical, contemporary, and situated perspective, integrating migrant narratives that connect the pieces with territories, memories, and places of origin. The project emerged from a collaborative process between the museum and the writing collective En Palabras.

Proposal:

En Palabras initiated a collective creation process around the Mesoamerican pieces in the collection. The result was Todo nuestro amor es un acto de herejía, a poetic performance conceived as a rite of evocation and rebirth, featuring an original text by mapuche poet Daniela Catrileo, who wove together the voices of the texts written by the collective with sounds, scents, and images, shaping a sensory dramaturgy. Under the stage direction of Carolina Torres Topaga, migrant bodies perform the poem on stage, activating a performative experience that connects past and present.

This proposal transforms the museum into a living space of migrant memory, where artistic creation becomes a tool to rethink heritage from contemporary, community-based, and situated perspectives.