Cada quien hace de su culo un florero is inspired by a detail from the triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch, in which a flower sprouts from the anus of a human figure. Rather than paying homage to Bosch, the work reclaims and intervenes his imagery through a Latinx, non-binary, and radically performative lens, where the body, once a passive object of the heteronormative colonial gaze, becomes a body-altar, exerting its own desire.

The performance unfolds as a living installation and happening where the visual, the bodily, and the symbolic intertwine in an undefined space. Two naked non-binary bodies hold each other in a baroque gesture. By joining their asses, they become a living vase where beauty blends with the grotesque, the obscene with the sublime, the intimate with the public. The work borrows aesthetics from baroque art, still life, and romanticism to compose a “living painting” in which the anus, long cast as a zone of shame by colonial Christian morality, is reimagined as a site of birth, blooming, and offering.

 
 
 
 
 
Original and English title: CADA QUIEN HACE DE SU CULO UN FLORERO
Concept and Performance by: Caribe Montiel & Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau
Year: 2025
Length: 20 minutes (flexible, depending on audience interaction)
Language: No dialogue
Genre: Live Performance & Happening

Selection of Festivals, Exhibitions & Awards

Antwerp Queer Arts Festival 2025
Alimentación Ming Zhu Art Festival Madrid 2025, World Premiere

Credits

Direction and Performance by: CARIBE MONTIEL & SIMON(E) JAIKIRIUMA PAETAU | Dramaturgy: LAURA PAETAU | Music by: DJ PIOLINDA MARCELA | Photos: VANESSA MARTINS | Distribution: LUCÍA GONZÁLEZ GARCÍA | A production by: ATELIER LAPAETAU & CARIBE MONTIEL