body fillers and plastified diets

VISUAL ESSAY by BÁRBARA SÁNCHEZ-KANE the mexican artist and fashion designer created a project for purple future, titled body fillers and plastified diets: undressing our bodies to nourish our future — a case study on the plastification of our bodies and the fight for water. The steam from the hot springs indicated to the Purépecha, the native inhabitants of Michoacán, the presence of Kwerawáperi, the goddess of rain and consequently of life. Sacrificial hearts were placed in these springs to announce to the deity a lack of rain. Human hunger extended from stomachs to the empire; on top of the taming of plants and animals, water has been channeled to subdue its fluctuating nature. Great lakes and rivers that indicated the promised land of Tenochtitlán were tubbed underground, replaced by four-lane roads: the realm of the underworld was replaced by a sewage system. Under human rule, Mictlán was transformed into…