The exhibition presents the third of five planned parts of ‹Unleash the Beast› together with corresponding «indexes» that are created in parallel to the editing process and function like a Wall of Crime. Catherina Cramer and Giulietta Ockenfuß deal with questions of origin, identity, and transformation in this series, break down patriarchal narrative forms, and question how history is written. They film with their smartphones in Mexico and also appear in front of the camera as protagonists of a political movement, the ‹Otherly Liberation Fighters›. The overall project thrives on the simultaneous use of fictional and documentary elements.

The viewers encounter a new fantastical figure, the Axolotl from Xochimilco, a district located in the south of Mexico City. The template has a thousand-year-old history and is described in pre-Hispanic myths as the Goddess of Eternity. Under the conditions in Xochimilco, Axolotl can only survive in artificial biotopes. With its fellow creatures, it is kept in a reserve so densely packed that they bite off each other's limbs to make space. By taking a hormone, it transforms into a salamander (whose limbs regrow), escapes Xochimilco, confronts its own research history, and becomes politically active. The real interview partner of this chapter is a woman of great experience: Angelica Garcia. This doctor and housewife has lived in Xochimilco for forty years and has experienced drastic changes in her urban environment during this time, which she vividly describes.