LATIN AMERICA MEMORIAL INSTALLATION

Latin America Memorial Installation.

The European conquest began a period of profound changes for the original peoples of America, who were invaded, subdued and looted by strangers, who appropriated their lands and imposed their customs. Taking into account the above, the project is defined as a memorial of the original peoples of Latin America.

The Memorial is located in the solitary and remate Red Lagoon, at 3.700 meters above sea level, in the Camarones Ravine, in northern Chile. lt is an intervention that consists of creating coffins from untreated recycled wood, forming a module anchored to the ground, with anthropometric measurements to denote the sensation of narrowness and death around the piece. Said artifact is replicated and arranged 248 times in a 100 x 100 meter grid around the lagoon, which symbolizing the repression imposed by the European on Latin America.

A remate landscape is shown, where the ground bleeds in silence remembering our origins, the worn wood represents time, the crane the invasion and the artifact each one of the towns forgotten by history. lt is the repression of our native peoples made landscape, which invites us to reflect and contemplate nature through human intervention.

Ultimately, the artifact emerges as an ephemeral installation within a remate landscape. Based on this, the artifact and its grid are proposed as a piece that can be moved through different parts of our country that suffered this colonization, and also through other Latin American countries, generating a space for reflection that allows resignifying those places and their past.