Hueixopantlaxcali

Hueixopantlaxcali: The Big Omelett of the Rain Times, unfolds as artwork, workshop, and collective practice. Developed from an ecofeminist perspective, the project brings together food, territory, oral knowledge, and community.

The work emerged during a residency with Calpulli Tecalco in Milpa Alta, Mexico City. Through Carmen Rodríguez and her daughter Angélica, I encountered a recipe created by Doña Amalia as a strategy of subsistence. Facing the challenge of feeding nine children with limited resources, she gathered wild herbs and combined them with cultivated plants to create a preparation based on quelites, edible plants of pre-Hispanic use, alongside introduced species such as dandelion.

Carmen named the recipe Hueixopantlaxcali, “the large tortilla of the green season,” referring to the rainy cycle in which these plants grow. Naming became central to the work: an act of reclaiming knowledge rooted in lived experience, oral transmission, and women’s domestic labor.

The project evolved into a performance workshop in which participants contribute edible herbs to a collective preparation shared at the end of the activation. Cooking becomes a space for the production of knowledge, memory, exchange, and communal relations.

The installation includes video documentation and a dress constructed from pages of art history books, modeled after Carmen’s apron and embroidered with the plants used in the recipe. Body, archive, labor, and territory converge within a single surface.

Hueixopantlaxcali reflects on food sovereignty, care, and collective forms of knowledge grounded in everyday practice.