2004 MATUCANA 100
Installation views, MMUU
2-person show with Johanna Unzueta, Matucana 100, Santiago de Chile
July – August 2004
Sunrise, 2004
Water based paint on mobile walls
Dimensions variable
Soundsystem (Love, Love, Love), 2004
2 mobile walls, speakers, sound amplification and sound
Dimensions variables
Reward, 2004
Photo background paper
Dimensions variables
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This installation occupied a group of mobile wall structures that until then where the exhibition-design structures used at Matucana 100. Four were intervened, on both sides, with paint, and two were intervened with sound equipment (amplifier and speakers). The emanated sound consisted of a selection of field recordings realized on a trip through Russia and China (2003), interchanged with beats recorded from a basic drum-sequencer machine. This sound-based research is related to a series of photo slides that document urban and natural landscapes taken roughly between 1995-2004, studies – o testimonies of a new drifting period – of newly found contexts around my move from Santiago to New York, followed by repeated trips to Europe and Asia. The mural paintings complement, surround, and also juxtapose the central sound piece with its somehow confused abstraction: one the one hand they appear as a minimal version of the Japanese flag (Raising Sun) and on the other hand they are simple orange planes of color that intervene and activate space. A third element in the show was an installation made with photographic paper backgrounds, which had their edges cut in the style of reward signs… obviously influenced by the North American context.
