RESIDENCE AT THE RESIDENCE | Elisa Montesinos The second version of ISLA-ISLA residency, which was supposed to take place at the Museum of Modern Art (MAM) Chiloé, was not able to occur in an on-site format. Felipe Múñoz and Jordán Plaza, the two artists selected to participate, worked from their own homes in the north of the country to later show their pieces online. The ocean, waves, cracked earth, family photographs, the facade of a house, an open window, an unmade bed. As a photographer interested in documentary work, Felipe faced the impossibility of traveling by rethinking the piece he had envisioned for Chiloé. Confined to his house in Coquimbo, he gathered together family pictures along with another that was taken at the beach, which would be the basis of his project on the island, and picking up his analog camera, began capturing new images from his daily life, creating a kind of visual journal of the quarantine. Leaving behind the idea of traveling, Jordán went back to work on the photographs of an action he had performed in the desert a few years back, close to Taltal. Near there was an iron deposit that had been mined by the Huentalauquen culture. This was his inspiration for painting his body like the ancient inhabitants of the region and digging deeply and intensely into the earth. Later on, he edited the material during the residency. In the video, he digs into the desert painted with red clay; the editing gives the idea of going back and forth, like a mirror between the past and the present, or a reflection on the illusory passage of time. In different ways, both artists give an account of introspection during periods of confinement, examining themselves and the environment at the same time.
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