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Mili Herrera

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2022

1995

Mexico

Parallel Oaxaca

Mili Herrera Caudal Eye Parallel 08

Against opacity (caudal autotomy), 2022

The works on display were part of the exhibition Caudal eye (or crocodile tears) at Parallel /// Oaxaca, 2022, where Mili Herrera expands the concept of Caudal autotomy, a voluntary self-amputation that is used by many species in the natural world as a anti-predation strategy, for example the lizards who brake their tails to leave for predators so they can escape. The works are proposed to be explored as a map of memories and symbols where characters and creatures appear in the midst of a cryptic representation of nature and a vegetational debris, The characters confront their segmen ...