DELUSION | Jordán Plaza “Time provides distance for the splintered being excavating through multiple realities, while the individual is lost in the redness of yesterday.” I had previously made an in situ intervention in a place near Taltal, where the San Ramón mine is located, a place that is approximately twelve thousand years old. That’s where the inhabitants of the Huentelauquén cultural complex extracted iron oxide for daily and ritual use. The idea was to “resurrect” a past that we have been connected to for a long time, creating a dialog between those ancient times and our own. And so I resort to painting myself, just like the old coastal huntergatherers that used the iron oxide to cover their bodies. With this intervention I reopen the debate over the links that have always bound us to the earth and the problems that arise when we forget about them. Recently, the work’s narrative has begun to take on a more introspective tone, becoming a regression in search of truths about oneself in a particularly strange context, one of imposed confinement. In a certain sense, it has also become a self-excavation, motivated by the search for raw materials that might serve as sustenance in order to give shape to new realities, facing a world and a system in crisis.
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