Ofrendxs is a meditation on my grandmother's collection of over 700 nacimientos (nativity sets), that interrogates the position of the bodies, particularly that of the Virgin Mary, not only physically between Joseph standing behind her and baby Jesus below her, but also socially as a piece of set that makes a family, a hypervisible symbol of heteropatriarchy. In the nativity set, the Mary statuette is forever in the same hunched over position, staring down at baby Jesus. Positioning myself as Mary and embedded throughout the performance there is a constant replacement of baby Jesus with objects that disrupt the figure of the baby calling out to be nurtured, and allow a rupture or shift in the physical/symbolic position/posture of Mary when separated from the familial/familiar scene. Important in the unfolding of the performance is a series of gestures which invite the audience's participation if they are moved to. (Please contact for video link)