Las Yeguas del Apocalipsis

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Las Yeguas del Apocalipsis was a Chilean performance art collective active from 1987 to 1997, known for provocative body-based work that confronted Chilean social taboos and political repression in the post-dictatorship period. Working primarily through live performance, video, and installation, the group used explicit imagery and transgressive gestures to challenge conservative moral frameworks and state violence. Their practice emerged directly from the urgency of 1980s and 1990s Santiago, where performance became a tool for articulating experiences of trauma, sexuality, and dissent that official culture suppressed.

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