Reencounter

Second place, MAVI award, 2015. Santiago, Chile. 

Reencounter, arises from the discovery of two halves of the same stone found in distant places on a beach on the Chilean coast. The first part I saw with half of the body buried in the sand, it was only half a stone and because of its common aspect it did not call my attention. The second part I found at the end of a large staircase that climbed to the top of a ravine, and seeing the great similarity with the broken stone buried in the sand, I went to the encounter with its other half in my hand.

Reencounter consists in the manipulation of the two parts of that stone, in which each half is driven by a motor that generates a back and forth movement, which produces the distancing of the parts and their meeting in the center of the piece, where one half chases the other and sometimes they meet, forming for a few seconds the complete stone.