RUDA

The pleasure, if not the obsession, of working with contrast, of going where she hasn't gone before or, more precisely, of not doing what she knows how to do - with the temptation, too, of not doing what we expect her to do. Many opposites, many contradictions... Not for contradiction's sake, but with a taste for writing based on contradictions. A taste for extremes too, for playing with pure opposites. A dissatisfaction, too, that drives her on.

Nature and culture have always been, deep down, a driving question. A questioning that probably stems from her own “nature”, from her own family history: a mixed-race Indigenous grandmother, a “hidden”, “mutinous” Indigenous origin, with which she seeks to connect, precisely because this origin was kept silent. A silence that aroused her curiosity, her attachment, her desire to get closer to it. That's where Ayelen, her middle name of Mapuche origin, comes from.