En occidente, la idea de utopía ha fascinado y de alguna manera atravesado todas las áreas y épocas del conocimiento humano, incluso desde antes de la génesis del concepto en la célebre Utopía de Tomás Moro de 1516; la edad de oro griega, la arcadia roman Read more
[2007-current] A photo series about tourists being tourists. Threnody -from the Greek threnos (wailing) and oide (ode)- is a series of laments at the same time as elegies.
Del 4 al 7 de Junio 2013, estaré mostrando algunas fotos de la serie Tourists y el video Tourists (Threnody I) en la Feria Pinta London de Arte Contemporáneo Latinoamericano junto a Gerardo Pulido, Catalina Bauer, Josefina Guilisasti, Tomás Rivas y… Read more
[2012] The industry is sold out. A film about films about corn fields. Curatorship by Marcelo Sarovic. In order of appearance: Children of the Corn IV (1996, Greg Spence), Field of dreams (1989, Phil Alden Robinson), Signs (2002, M. Night Shyamalan), Children of the Corn (2009, Donald P. Borchers), Haute Tension (2003, Alexandre Aja), Joyride (2001, John Dahl), Freddy vs. Jason (2003, Ronny Yu), Children of the Corn VII (2001, Guy Magar), Children of the Corn VI (1999, Kari Skogland), Children of the Corn III (1995, James D.R. Hickox), Twister (1996, Jan de Bont), Children of the Corn V (1998, Ethan Wiley), North by Northwest (1959, Alfred Hitchcock), Children of the Corn I (1984, Fritz Kiersch), The Informant! (2009, Steven Soderbergh), Secret Window (2004, David Koepp), Children of the Corn II (1992, David Price), Planet of the Apes (1968, Franklin J. Schaffner), A Scanner Darkly (2006, Richard Linklater), The Straight Story (1999, David Lynch).
Siempre quise hacer una película. Cuando me decidí a empezar me dí cuenta que ya la había hecho. Dos personas que conocí por circunstancias determinadas (y determinantes) en mi vida, habían construído a través de mí un discurso sobre la vida en forma de l Read more
[2012] A goodbye film to Santiago shot in the San Carlos canal. Tired and bored, our boredom grows, we carry it from work back to home, life slip away, water murmur, our dreams underneath glow in the dark. Music by hermano-hermano.com
[2011] The project consists in building a raft to navigate downstream the Mapocho river, since its channeled entrance into the center-north of the city of Santiago until its mouth in the Maipo river, across the districts of Vitacura, Las Condes, Providencia , Recoleta, Independencia, Santiago, Renca, among others. To build the raft I will use only industrial waste collected around the city... to sail and navigate in search of another land, beyond this city, to survive the flood and find “where germinates the seed of a new humanity” (Wisdom 14:6 .) The phrase living off the fat of the land – also of biblical origin (Genesis 45: 17) – refers to live off the fertility and abundance of the earth. In a contemporary sense and focused in urban dynamics, this fat, once abundance and generosity, has now sadly been exploited to excess, extravagance and waste. It is precisely these excesses caused by certain ideas of progress, which I see symbolized in the waste that will be used to build the raft; excesses from which I escape by the sailing aimlessly away. The project ultimately explores the human experience in the cities, showing certain urban situations that reveal the need to recover public space for people, imagining new occupation dynamics which poetically illuminate richer, diverse and simpler ways of living
What follows is an interview that is based on the exhibition Micro-Utopías but that could easily speak for an entire body of work, of perhaps minimal impact but tremendous metaphorical resonance. Read more
Capitalismo y melancolía Las ideas de progreso que acarrea un capitalismo practicado como religión y norma arrasan a su paso cualquier vínculo histórico, social, sensible o mnémico (de memoria y recuerdos); cualquier conexión posible con el… Read more
La fotografía como arte de la representación (que trae trozos del pasado al presente, que es siempre una reflexión sobre la nostalgia, el tiempo y la muerte) Read more