Detonante
Suspending in time the exact moment in which the territory is subjected to a violent physical change,Detonante documents the Amazon landscape and the relentless explosions that remove it. In the heart of the Peruvian VRAEM valley, where troops of the terrorist group the Shining Path still reside, drugs are produced and packaged in order to be exported from the country using clandestine airstrips on the national Amazonian territory. The detonations executed by the Peruvian army on their pledge to the War on Drugs, invite us to reflect on the idea of the virgin and plethoric rainforest, where the supposed exotic landscape without alterations established in the imaginary is contrasted with the presence of the conflicted territory intervened by the explosions. Through the collision of these worlds that shake the landscape, the explosions embody the decisive moment in which a land is shaken, transformed.
In October 2017, the 8 border wall prototypes designed by 6 private companies were officially presented to the public in order to theoretically fulfill the main campaign promise of building a "beautiful" wall looking to definitively divide the American continent, where the aesthetically pleasing side would face the United States of America.
Prototype questions the construction of physical barriers as a definitive solution to the massive displacements occurring in the American continent. It analyzes the aesthetic perception materialized through tangible architectural elements in the archetypes as part of the concept of Symbolic Violence. By documenting and juxtaposing both sides from the same constructions that would organically never face each other, it approaches the aesthetic perception as an element coming from the power structures that claimed the construction of the barrier.
Cajamala
In the face of latent change, Cajamala presents us with a space where the occupations and cultural practices carried out in the town of Santa Rosa articulate a sense of the social organization in the town and its relationship with the constantly ever changing geographical territory. The rituals, religious context, traditions, the bodily relationship with geography, the workplaces and the intimate space of home help us to construct the fiber of the social organization that inhabits the ever changing territory.