| Gonzalo Díaz (1947, Santiago)
This project considers the overly determined tenet of using 67 rectangular
shaped Ziploc bags. The Ziploc bags will be placed in a grid-panel
(238 x 138 cm). A portrait of Kafka will be enlarged and printed,
in black and white, on photographic paper. This large photograph
will be cut into
70 rectangular pieces, each of which will be placed in a Ziploc
bag.
The three bags from the bottom left row of the grid will be removed,
with their respective photographic fragments, in order to fulfill
the requisite
of a composition made of 67 bags.
Josefina Fontecilla (1962, Santiago) - Notes For
a Lesson on Painting
The first part of the project, the collection, takes place during
Chile’s
summer days, when a piece of red brocade is exposed to sunlight.
Every evening, a fragment of this fabric is cut and introduced to
a Ziploc bag, along with the weather report of Santiago de Chile
published that day in the local newspaper. The result is a fragmented
version of the original cloth, now exhibiting its chromatic degradation.
Josefina Guliasti (1963, Santiago) - Eyecup
Eyecup consists of collecting glass, transparent objects difficult
to identify and classify. Due to the transparent and aseptic qualities
of Ziploc bags, the objects will maintain a relationship to their
containers. Eyecup is the name of the small, transparent receptacles
used for applying medicine in the eye’s orbit. Sight is healed
only when we are able to see the objects despite their invisibility.
Bernardo Oyarzún (1963, Llanquihue) - Previous
Fragments
I’m from the South of Chile where a restless land zealously
signals the past. Farming plows open the earth, outcropping its
epidermis, and the remains of the ceramic and stone tools found
there tell colloquial stories. For years, I have collected these
during my travels. I gather ceramic pieces, stone utensils, and
tools, place them individually in Ziploc bags, and make an inventory
of fragments of Huilliche culture. I keep these fragments as proof
of occurrences that reality has devoured.
Isabel del Rio (1956, Santiago)
The project consists of collecting a number of electronic devices
that
are found in the interiors of toys, and which transmit a message
or a determined requirement. These devices activate processors
converting electronic signs into sound.
Pablo Rivera (1961, Santiago)
A collection of ‘abstract’ objects and fragments, objects
of diverse use
and origins, which have as a common axis their pre-existence in
the
colloquial and the usufructory of a signifier bordering the stereotype
of the abstract. |