We Are Roots unfolds as a choreography of poetry and materials, in an ascending and descending movement that proposes a physical extension of the Contuy forest in Chiloé. The work brings with it the undergrowth of the fungal realm, native trees, springs, and millenary peatlands, and evokes—through the multiplicity of forms in roots and trunk—the traces of lives accumulated in subterranean silence: growing through resistance to finally emerge into light.

In the Visual Arts Gallery at CAMM, a material dialogue is staged between the Forest Woman (Cai coi)—braided and woven by Chiloé artist Raquel Aguilar Colivoro, dressed with leaves and birds and suspended in the space—and the roots alongside a sectioned canelo trunk installed by Voluspa Jarpa. The installation builds an encounter between corporeality, territory, and memory, where the organic becomes language and matter operates as narrative.

The work was conceived in the Contuy region and spatially installed for the Blue Chapel, curated by Ramón Castillo and Dan Cameron. In its presentation in Puerto Varas, at the Molino Machmar Art Center, the installation unfolds a verticality that runs from floor to ceiling: roots extend through the space while, in the windows, a monumental image of the Andean massif appears—an ancient witness to the cultures and peoples of South American territory.