The last shelter
2016
Work part of “Out of office” group show at Louise 186, Brussels
This project works as a journey through different spaces, materials and everyday stories that fuse each other based on the asymmetrical relationships between man, industry, work and nature. Analogies where the concepts of culture and civilization blink simultaneously in landscapes devastated for the sake of "development".
"The last shelter” questions the idea of protection in housing areas affected by the extraction and oil industry in the Amazon. From symbologies created from everyday materials: the structure of a recycled umbrella, its waterproof material, latex paint and tar, generate friction and open up interpretations on spaces and resistance.
"Customs" is developed from the commercial use of oil in a product for domestic use, in which it is observed how an environmentally damaging element materializes in something as trivial and everyday as the shoe shine. The use of regional geometric patterns influence concepts of modernity and tradition.
Finally, “Bandera” [Flag] appears as a remembrance of protest situations against the Peruvian company that caused multiple oil spills in the Peruvian Amazon in 2016.The work is activated from its transformation and passing through different places and its collective manipulation. The process begins from the creation of the image from the logo of the company in question, its subsequent viralization and collective appropriation at the time of the protest. Later this device (protest material) is taken up and re-materialized from traditional and industrialized everyday fabrics/techniques such as processed tocuyo and digital embroidery.