Medium intensity / Geological Fault

Sala Anilla, 2017.  Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile.

Falla is in the middle of an investigation that I have been conducting some years ago, about the subject as inhabitant of a territory and the relationship with his natural environment. How they dialogue, subject and nature and about the influence of technological development in this relationship, which has distanced them exponentially.

Falla plays with the negative sense of the word, understood as error and at the same time with its meaning in geology, where a geological fault is a crack, a fracture on the earth's surface, which is shifting over the years, More so because of the tectonic movements. Chile has both characteristics, is located on the Nazca and South American plates and Santiago is particularly on a fault, that of San Ramón, which affects several communes of Santiago. In this sense, the exhibition reflects on how this fault for nature is not negative, but is a process of continuous change in order to release energy, to mutate, to move, being for the human being a totally negative fact, that destroys houses, towns, cities, etc