Ziploc
Special project from Santiago, Chile

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.




Ziploc, 2003. Special project for Prague Biennale1.