Dirty underwear, biological prophecies, and a new way of seeing the future: Aline Olmos Steler’s performance brings to life a universe of wet clairvoyance and delirious intimacy that teases the viewer with charismatic energy, and yet each time finds a way into the raw essence of human nature.

Even if billions of people produce vaginal discharge every day across the world, it has remained invisible and taboo for as long as we can remember. Olmos Steler’s artistic pursuit starts from there to take place in a museum exhibition, where dirty panties are put in golden frames, and the audience is invited to look into their smudges and interpret their omens.

Inspired by practices such as reading coffee grounds or the lines of a hand, the work invents “Dischargemancy” — a fictional divinatory practice based on reading vaginal discharge stains. On cotton surfaces, images begin to appear: a woman smoking a pipe, a dead duck, a landscape, a ghost.

The more one looks, the more one sees.

It is a performance that moves between theatre, exhibition, and clowning, born from the fear of one day looking at a stain and seeing only a stain.

Marking her first production with KVS Theatre, Aline Olmos Steler presents a work in progress at the Próximamente Festival, showcasing the piece in its final stage of development.