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Francisca Benítez M & E, 2006 With a fixed shot, the video shows the Marx & Engels monument in Berlin, with the Palast Der Republik in the back. M&E talk to each other in mute-film mode; considering the demolition of the former DDR government house, they wonder how long will it take for them to disappear from the landscape. Soon a bus with young tourists arrive and, being aware of the camera, progressively fill up the screen, until they completely block the view of the sculpture. |
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Carlos Bogni + Gonzalo Muñoz Untitled, 1987 (2006) Bogni says he "stole the picture somewhere around and asked Gonzalo to prepare a text". The photograph, taken from the media, corresponds to an unknown civilian awaiting his fate (most likely to be shot in the face) by the open subway line, under construction in Santiago in 1973. |
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Marlous Borm After Constant 1 (small), 2006 Marlous has also made versions with white leather strips, in bigger sizes.
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Lutz Braun Nicht C-Fahrer, 2006 One of six portraits painted by Lutz in exchange for tickets to China for “some band” to spend two months in a studio in Shanghai, where they are right now. Finally only three people flew to China, so this one, Mischa, is one of three paintings entitled "No C-Traveler". There is also apparently an obtuse German message of a Mercedes Benz model "C" Class. |
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Angie Butler Mission Inquisition, 2006 Angie Butler heard about CG from Martin G. Schmid and, considering she had to come to Berlin, planned to fly from UK to German carrying this ticking briefcase. Originally the plan was to record with a "bossom camera” the passing through customs, but this was not possible. The briefcase was left at the exhibition space. The battery operated ticking mechanism will be on for one whole year. |
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FPMR, 2006 Jorge has been working with miniatures for several years now. |
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The Penguin’s Revolution, 2006 |
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Juan Céspedes Mr. Pin8 (Dancing to the Banjo), 2006 This is a short sample of Juan’s various tools and mediums. He works with video, animation, painting, sculpture and performance. Currently presenting a second solo show at Andrew Kreps in NYC. |
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Tomás Daskam Untitled, 2004 |
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Untitled, 2006 Andreas combines imagery from a lot of different sources in his paintings. |
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Godfied Donkor Jamestown Masquerade, 2004 The video was shot in Jamestown, the first stop in Ghana where the British docked to pick up some locals into slavedom, take them on a sail trip to Jamaica, south of USA and then back to London. The costumes used in this masquerade-dance-performance, following European fashion of the seventeen hundreds, were made with traditional African fabrics. Production costs paid by the British Council for the Arts. |
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Solvej Dufour-Andersen One million times, 2005 Solvej lives in Geneve, where she runs a family of two children, Artist Statement: |
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Benjamín Echazarreta The Gospel of the Creole Pig (excerpt), 2003-2006 This is a small part of a film where Benjamin worked as Director of Photography and made a run for the documentary big prize in Cannes in 2003. Filmed in New York and Port Au Prince, Haiti, the movie shows parallels between life in the biggest modern city, which dictates the economy of our world, and life in the third world; in the middle of a huge garbage-dump-city where pigs are raised and killed, giving the butcher the highest hierarchy rank in this community. |
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Kelly Fancher Crystal Ghosts, 2006 Artist Statement: |
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Kelly Fancher Beach (Coney Island, NY) , 2004 Artist Statement: |
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Claudio Fernández Berlin summer event, 2006 This is an overlapped video edition that mixes documentaries about |
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Diego Fernandez Relaciones sobre un horizonte de mentira, 1994 This is shot from atop a bridge over the Mapocho river in Santiago. A level difference on the river bed that makes the water move in such way that all floating garbage accumulates |
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Howling Mad Murdock (contragolpe), 2006 This painting is a portrait of H.M. Murdock, a character in the 80’s American TV series
"The A Team", about a group of Vietnam veterans that can’t fit back into LA society
and go around as justice administrator-mercenaries with a smirky smile.
Murdock is the most insane in this group, definitely crazy, he's kept in the team only
because he's a genius mechanic and pilot. Being a popular series worldwide in 1986,
Murdock was a common nickname for some wacky character,
could have been myself in school, or the last person recruited to participate in the attack,
after one of the members of FPMR walked out last minute,
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Untitled, 2003 This is a portrait of a far right wing politician currently working in Bayern |
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Francisca García Low Missiles, 2006 This video was made from Chilean TV broadcast related to actual reenactments of the attack to Pinochet in 1986 made by Chilean police and military. The edition also includes scenes taken from various movies that show car chases and explosions. |
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Cristina Gómez Barrio & Wolfgang Mayer (Discoteca Flaming Star) Suicide, 1998 The voice of Aemon McMahon reads unrelated fragments from |
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Mark Grubstein I Love Pinochet, 2006 Mark works as a photographer, performer, musician, painter and various other forms of artistic activism while keeping in character as Guapo the Clown. (often as a member of Brooklyn-based collective Fantastic Nobodies) He made this piece and said we could show it however we wanted (we chose to hang it in an electrical outlet), sell it at any price we wanted, and, if such was the case,keep all the money for ourselves. |
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Nicolás Guagnini + Jeff Preiss Discharge, 2005 In this work, Guagnini performs a series of exercises designed by Austrian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957), whom, among many other theories and works, argued that the main source of sexual repression was bourgeois morality and the socio-economic structures that produce it. As sexual repression was the cause of the neuroses, the best cure would be having an active, guilt-free sex life, since unreleased psychosexual energy could produce actual physical blocks within muscles and organs. This particular exercise consists of eye movements, respiratory rythms, muscular distensions and wild screaming in general catharsis. The film has been duplicated and flipped backwards, then mounted switching sides with the original every few seconds, so at the beginning of the final edition we simultaneously see the start and the ending of the exercise. Considering the under-theme of CG and the fact that Nicolás lived in Argentina in times of brutal dictatorship, the relation to electric forms of torture is as direct as it is disturbing, but there are also moments when it looks like he’s giving birth, or having sex, or on drugs. |
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Tony Hamboussi Apollo Avenue, Borden Street, Tollgate, Lombardy Street, 2004-2006 Tony is one of the best photographers in Brooklyn that is for sure. |
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Barbara Hilski Camouflage, 2006 Barbara has produced these two photographs that are beautiful, sleek, professionally mounted, and tell a story of high class comfort being spied on from within, from the garden, through what seems to be one of those cool telescopic lenses. Hilski is currently studying at the Dusseldorf Kunst Akademie. |
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Jackson Nice Try, Revolt.I.P., 2006 Jackson is a musician, he works with electronic media and this is the first time that
he has worked on something like this, an art piece, “for the wall”, within an exhibition.
There is a toy 9 mm. hand gun hanging below this piece, on the floor, tied by a cable. |
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Steve Johnson Made for Mapacho, 2006 Steve makes drawings, paintings, sculptures, furniture, music, other stuff and home movies, many, many wonderful home movies, all contained in his Temporary Museum of Modern Musical Men. This piece was inspired by some street vision of three red flags in one of his trips to Chile, because Steve is married to a Chilean woman who helped him made his most important piece yet, their son, Rio Corso Banana Andalou Johnson Blanc. God bless.
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Thomas Kilpper Fight On, 2000 Thomas made this print carving the parquet of his soon to be demolished London studio. The image is a composition that shows Ho Chi Mihn holding a poster that actually circulated in Viet Nam, where the Baader-Meinhof Group (Rote Armee Fraktion, a german left wing "urban guerilla" that operated from 1970 until 1998) became sort of national heroes after they blew up a computer in Munich where a lot of classified information about war operations in Viet -Nam was contained. Thomas Kilpper also runs After the Butcher, a gallery/residence space in Lichtenberg, Berlin.Currently showing at The Pump House Gallery in London’s Battersea Park
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Ingo Kniest Verhor, 2006 This picture shows the very modernist (futurist maybe?) wallpaper in one of the interrogation rooms of the former Stasi jailhouse in East Berlin. ("stasi" is short for Ministerium für Staatssicherheit or Ministry for State Security). |
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Cristóbal Lehyt Drama projection-z, 2006 Cristóbal is a Chilean artist who has been living in NYC for more than a decade. He works with painting, drawing, video, in installations that combine all of them. Artist Statement:Part of series of works done as another person-trying to be another person. |
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Cristóbal Lehyt NO, 2006 This video portrays an abandoned building in the North of Chile, as the camera walks closer to the ruins it goes through a doorway (seen here), and then makes a quick turn around a corner to reveal a "scratchitti" in the adobe writing the word "NO" . |
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Søren Maarquardt Happy Birthday (handy painting), 2006 A lonely clown celebrates a birthday. Somehow made by assembling pixels on a lost application of a regular cellular phone. Søren came to play as the drummer of (Die Band) and just hung it on the wall. |
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Fabian Marti Love, 2006 Fabian works mostly as a photographer (35 mm film only!). So this is one of his extraordinary drawings.He recently opened a space for “kunst, kaffe & kakes” in Zurich. |
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Maximilian Moll Untitled, 2006 Max Moll is a film director and producer, the last artist to be included in this show. His piece combines pictures of Pinochet and Stalin about to be grinded along with money and magic substances of grass and salt. |
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Felipe Mujica Falling Down, 2006 |
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Iván Navarro This is a non-electric version of a sculpture that Ivan has made before using neon tube lights. It’s a pit stop for his career of electric furniture and mirror games. Ivan is one of three brains at ID. |
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Mario Navarro Bandera Comilla, 2006 |
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neuroTransmitter Notes for Electromagnetic Resistance, 2006 Artist Statement: |
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untitled (Camp Scene Along the 32nd Parallel), 2001 This is a digitally altered photograph that shows Angel working in his studio on the fields of what is now California, back in 1860-sumthin.“…used to be sixteen lane, used to be John Wayne, used to be Mexicain, used to be “Espano Nuevo”, used to be Navajo… used to be YIPPY YAY! I DONT-KNOW”… Frank Black, Calistan 1993 |
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Bettina Nürnberg + Dirk Peuker
Revolutionary Tea Party, 2006 Artist Statement: A short story about broken dreams in a snowy place somewhere at the edge of Europe. |
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Nutria (Christian Torres) Walking Around in the Land of Dasein (based on a Pablo Neruda's poem), 2006 Nutria is Christian Torres in his multiple appearances as philosopher, language teacher, singer, song-writer, home made rock star and alternative movie hunk. Look for his music on Huesorecords Artist Statement: |
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Itziar Okariz This is a video that shows Itziar quietly listening to and then reproducing a traditional cry, a form of mountain communication in Euzkadi, a war and mourn cry too for all Vascos. |
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Rodrigo Pereda This is a picture of an architect’s office in Santiago, where Rodrigo found a somehow notorious hand-made model of the national Chilean emblem, presenting the condor and the huemul, the national animals, but without the somehow unfamous slogan “either by reason or force”. Given to Salvador Allende during his presidency as a present from a local craftsman, the wall-sculpture is made to be connected to a gas source and covered in flames. |
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Katrin Pesch Untitled (Sept. 11, 2006), 2006 Katrin asked ID to buy two issues of the New York Times before leaving to Germany. One of them to be left intact on the floor and one to be used of the construction of “three or four” paper planes that should be thrown in the exhibition space and left there, to be replaced when necessary. |
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Pedro Pulido Anker Happy Anniversary My General, 2006 |
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Cristóbal Pulido Anker Escorvopeta M16, corvo hechizo acribillado, 2006 Cristóbal works as a sculptor in Santiago. He has made long series of work about the body and the city. Also lots of marginal weaponry and jail style knives. Artist Statement: |
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Kimberly Reinhardt PRecious Moments, INC., 2006 |
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Rodrigo Salinas This was the only curated piece in the show, as ID asked Rodrigo |
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Giovanna Sarti Indelebible, 2006 Giovanna is a great painter and artist activist who also cordinates a multi disciplinary folded magazine called Blatt Spezial. |
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Giovanna Sarti. Die frau ist da, 2006 |
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Fra SM Nouva 5 1425-1440, 2006 This painting by poetry performance artist and painter Mighty Glam Schmid is originally inspired by a painting of Fra Angelico (1400-1455), a representation of the virgin (held in Napoles) that has a very particular fine line treatment to provoke a visual effect (moire). Martin saw this painting and ever since has been trying to reproduce this magical effect. In this piece, the surface is a printed canvas that has been made through a computer algorithm that creates a surface where the eye just wanders for focus, with lighter stripes in those places where the algorithm stops working correctly, after a dizzy number of operations.. |
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Karin Schneider Ditador em Morfina em bloco de resina, 2006 |
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Londonbox, 2006 Living in Berlin, a city where artists survive on very low budgets, Thomas suddenly felt like taking a 5 day vacation trip to London, one of the most expensive capitals of Europe. There he collected pieces of memories and parts of trips: subway tickets, restaurant bills, chewing gum wraps and other assorted shit that later placed inside the "Londonbox". The box remains closed while the video shows the inside. Artist Statement: |
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Kerim Seiler Bonjour Mon Amour, 2006 This piece came by regular mail from beautiful Zuri. We had to go to the post office and explain forehand what was in the package. Since we said it was a photograph, we were asked what was portrayed in it. Then we realized we were about to pay art taxes or something like that, but they let us go. |
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Cristián Silva Born in Santiago de Chile, 1970, lives and works in NYC
Casi, 2006 Still not sure if all the logistics of installing this piece were or were not a part of its purpose or ultimate meaning. The piece is made with near three hundred resin casted peach pits, and Cristián wanted ID to write 4 words on the 4 corners of the room (beinahe, almost, presque and casi). The pits were "almost" enough to write one word, at half of the required size. Was it planned as a philosophycal joke? One of Silva's favorite tools. Special thanx to Chato Alejandro Moreno for his valuable help with the installation. |
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Ania Siwanovic + Ludovic Poulet Derivative of one, 2006 Ania selected the image and Ludovic prepared the sound; the screen is progressively divided to show more and more speakers, from one to a blurry amount of a few hundreds, I guess… |
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Courtney Smith Pyschic-Complex, 2003 This is a photographic document of a previous sculpture piece from Courtney, when she worked with a carpenter that helped her in altering antique Brasilian furniture into modern hinged sculptures that fit into each other. |
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Peter Stoffel Untitled, 2006 |
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Peter Stoffel Untitled, 2006 The video shows two takes of an actor repeating a series of hand signs and movements, associated to different words in a dialogue with, apparently, himself. At each new round, the changing meaning and tone of the conversation takes the viewer through different modes and models. Filmed on location at a famous Le Corbusier social housing complex in Marseille. |
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Megan Sullivan A failed operation, 2006 Megan offered her class of Fox Hunting Style Horse Riding to an institution, |
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Emily Sundblad Untitled (St. Cosme & St. Damien), 06.06.2006, 2006 One in a larger series of “more theatrical” drawings and watercolors by Emily. |
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Ian Szydlowski Alvarez Kunst über alles (parachoque), 2006 The idea of the puppet came first,
then a casual encounter with a troupe of Chilean puppeteers on the streets of Berlin turned back from the mail a very detailed puppet of Pinochet to be later annihilated under a falling pane of glass that had been previously painted with the product of an elaborated vampire mixing ritual done by one of Ian’s many aliases "el encapuchado"(hooded one). |
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Valerie Tevere FPMR, 2006 |
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Claudio Torres (CTR) A Rocket Carries a Dream, 2006 Something Claudio learnt in Africa is this folk tradition to overcome desire: put your wish in a rocket and send it away to become true. Originally conceived to include a stack of photocopies with a line diagram on how to fold the rocket correctly for best aerodynamics. |
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Johanna Unzueta Flag, 2006 Johanna works with felt, making sculptures that resemble clothing, buildings and often attempt to portray the internal relations of social structures. This piece was made to resemble a protest flag, depicting in a soft stitched wool drawing the original Chinese model of bicycle intended to transport the whole family of The People’s Republic towards a glowing red future. |
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Rodrigo Vergara La melancolia es la paz de la tristeza, 2006 A red star stitched out of assorted American caps that wear logos of |
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Manuela Vieragallo Wash away: unfinished business, 2006 Manuela found out that chlorine looses the pigment from photographic emulsion prints, dripped some of it on top of the faces of many Pinochet pictures taken from the press, then filmed the process of dissolving and gently blew on the liquid, making it move. The result of this simple chemical proceeding is a cross between digital animation and fire. The two photographs work as documents from the active process. |
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Miriam Visaczki Ich weiß nichts über Chile: Waldmünchen 1, 2, 3, 4, 2006 Through the information and images in the boxes, |
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Paulo Vivacqua No Fear, 2006 Another eerie soundtrack from Paulo, who’s been trying to catch the waves of real evil for years, mixing the history of contemporary music with brasilian tele-novelas balancing the recycled nightmares of crazy electronic musicians within his own piano-trained brain. The sound was presented from inside a metal box with two speakers and a counterfeit WB sticker commonly used to decorate cool Rio taxi cabs, along with the dogmatic bumper-sticker that reads: “The message is a lie! Hail the teeth of victory!”. |
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Peter Wächtler + Friederich Lissmann Mysterie Star, 2006 Artist Statement: The contributed piece "Mysterie Star" is their first collaboration and it deals with folkloristic decor, function, practicability and private preparations for an unfair revenge. " Mysterie Star" is a "fantasy decoration-sword" ordered via internet. The work consists in redesigning the sword to create a fierce weapon out of a useless, unstable, "decorative" object. The original design of sword, which refers to scorpions and tribals, is extended and ignored at the same time. |
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Klaus Winnichner Ohne title (selbstportrait), 2006 Klaus came one day to drop this piece saying that it was |
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Axel John Wieder Untitled, 2006 Axel brought us a meticulous drawing of flowers in a vase. He hanged it next to the bar, |
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Camilo Yañez La cara oculta del poder en Chile, 2006 Camilo had planned this piece to be 2 x 2 meters, on the wall, but we ended up doing it on a window so we could double the game in projecting the image. A drawing about the manipulation of media and the culture of infotainment. Painted by Lissman, Waechtler and Navarro in the wee hours of September 29th, 2006. |
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Mateo Zlatar Land of mines, 2006 This work shows an animated series of 7 images made after satellite photographs of Chuqicamata, an open copper mine in the north in Chile that has great social and economical significance, not only for it means the biggest copper production in the world, but also because, as usual, working conditions and living quality are ruled by a different status over there. Mateo works as a graphic designer, musician and lately as an independent curator. |