Nuevos vestigios (New vestiges)
2017
Installation at “Generación Y” group exhibition, Lima
The purpose of an exploration is to inquire, to explore, to cross, to analyze an space, a situation or a body or matter. The act of exploring something means giving it a new condition, modifying it and pointing it up.
Is it possible to dig up what is already present on the surface and visible to us? Is it possible to change what we have around us and transform it into a “vestige”?
Following this first reflection is sought through sculpture and drawing, reconfiguring inhabited spaces from the re-exploration of them, starting with the elements that surround them: objects, materials and bodies that are visible and remain unnoticed, but somehow identify us, modify us and are part of our daily life and memory; proposing archaeological exercises that encourage the action of digging up and bury existing objects in order to give them a new meaning, a meaning of vestige and the history of a place.
From modification of residual materials, decoration and construction materials, utensils and forgotten objects and their transformation, is possible to show a second reality, one that re-explores a place, which hides and also shows what has already been explored