The river is now a road 2023
The furrow that interrupts the landscape, the pebbles and boulders are the material trace of the river that has disappeared. What is extinguished with it? What is exhausted with the lack of the Illapel River? The pain and desolation -explicit in the treatment of the image- transcend the narrative of drought as a totalizing environmental problem capable of responding to the void.
The artist, by superimposing clips from family archives and current captures, suggests an alternative reading of the devastation: the Illapel River is an articulator of collective memories for the inhabitants of the territory. Its depletion has to do with the lack of resources, which provokes nostalgia, erasure and oblivion.
The sound story of the exercise is a collaboration with AOIR Lab collective.
The river is now a road 2023
The furrow that interrupts the landscape, the pebbles and boulders are the material trace of the river that has disappeared. What is extinguished with it? What is exhausted with the lack of the Illapel River? The pain and desolation -explicit in the treatment of the image- transcend the narrative of drought as a totalizing environmental problem capable of responding to the void.
The artist, by superimposing clips from family archives and current captures, suggests an alternative reading of the devastation: the Illapel River is an articulator of collective memories for the inhabitants of the territory. Its depletion has to do with the lack of resources, which provokes nostalgia, erasure and oblivion.
The sound story of the exercise is a collaboration with AOIR Lab collective.