The beach gives back what we leave behind. Working with plastic collected along the shoreline, Baby Vulture transforms debris into souvenir — each discarded fragment cleaned, handled, offered. From her booth she passes these objects to visitors the way any seaside vendor might, except what she sells is our own waste, returned with care. A gentle transaction that asks what we take home, what we leave behind, and who — or what — bears the cost.
Baby Vulture’s installation and performance for Aki Aora approached complex topics as an analogy of death & rebirth and the duality that occurs in people’s perceptions such as our polluted ocean.
Inspired by her research of the natural environment of Tulum and the Mayan mythological stories of two Heroic Twins: Hunahpu (Junajpu) and Xbalanque (Xb’alanke) with their self-sacrifice in the underworld. The artist created a large scale ‘Nicho’ and moved her atelier inside this transparent souvenir box, where she performed on the last day of the exhibition, transforming found plastic objects from Tulum’s beach into souvenirs visitors were welcomed to take with them.
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