Research Statement

THE GAME OF TIME IN FOUR CHAPTERS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the last years I´ve been developing a multidisciplinary project, it has passed on to a long-time “work in progress” based on the multiple and changeable concept of time. This work configuration is being developed by the own vital rhythm (geographical, sentimental and politics), slid through different disciplines of knowledge, building a customized conceptual structure.

The biographical map where the search becomes arranged is The Game of Time. My childhood in the North of Chile is reviewed in ALMA PROJECT. It's related to the past political situation (Pinochet´s coup d´état), the present economic situation (Copper Mines) and a future scenery (the installing of scientific observatories in the desert). CYCLORAMA collects works related with the city of Barcelona and analyses the doubtful concept of leisure time under which the city has been designed. PROTOTYPE corresponds to the mature age and refers to a "prototypical idea" about how the political category "freedom" is embedded like something only possible to exist in a neoliberal capitalist society. UNTERSTADT represents the way to confront the own death and the death that is daily broadcasted to us by deactivating the ancient meaning of it as an integrated phase of life.

Around this configuration I go on developing multiple projects which function autonomously, even though conceptually connected in this map of time. Therefore, the mutability of the time representation takes over the aesthetics of the work, thus emphasizing the process rather than the finished product.

Please select the words around the board game to see the projects

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