Wound
(2017)
Herida is an interactive installation that works over the relationship between light, time, memory and politics. Using photographic enlargers of the 70’s and 90’s, these machines project the portraits of the three men who have immolated themselves in Chile, due to political and economic implications. The first of them occurred in a dictatorship period, and the other two in democracy, thus these events connect through most of modern Latin American history.
There are three enlargers with the portraits of these men, and opposite to them, a fourth machine, that projects the image of a house on fire on one of the walls of the room. The portraits are projected onto a photoluminescent dust that engraves the images temporarily, this process can repeat itself during an unlimited period of cycles.
This piece is a socio-political declaration on the ways in which the economic and political power is exerted and historically exercised over the South American continent throughout its modern history, taking as a point of connection the story of these three people; Sebastian Acevedo, Eduardo Miño and Marco Cuadra. Through their biographies we can draw a line that begins with the geopolitical interventions promoted by the CIA to destabilize Latin American governments to establish dictatorships throughout the region, continuing with the raise in influence and power of transnational interest with companies that go through environmental measures, and ethical limits to enforce their own profit. These three men as a last way of protest, decide to immolates themselves to make a change and declare through their own bodies the injustices and abuses of power in different context; against the terrorist state of Pinochet, the abuse of power of transnational interest, and a against a corrupt legal system.
Herida is an interactive installation that works over the relationship between light, time, memory and politics. Using photographic enlargers of the 70’s and 90’s, these machines project the portraits of the three men who have immolated themselves in Chile, due to political and economic implications. The first of them occurred in a dictatorship period, and the other two in democracy, thus these events connect through most of modern Latin American history.
There are three enlargers with the portraits of these men, and opposite to them, a fourth machine, that projects the image of a house on fire on one of the walls of the room. The portraits are projected onto a photoluminescent dust that engraves the images temporarily, this process can repeat itself during an unlimited period of cycles.
This piece is a socio-political declaration on the ways in which the economic and political power is exerted and historically exercised over the South American continent throughout its modern history, taking as a point of connection the story of these three people; Sebastian Acevedo, Eduardo Miño and Marco Cuadra. Through their biographies we can draw a line that begins with the geopolitical interventions promoted by the CIA to destabilize Latin American governments to establish dictatorships throughout the region, continuing with the raise in influence and power of transnational interest with companies that go through environmental measures, and ethical limits to enforce their own profit. These three men as a last way of protest, decide to immolates themselves to make a change and declare through their own bodies the injustices and abuses of power in different context; against the terrorist state of Pinochet, the abuse of power of transnational interest, and a against a corrupt legal system.
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