Wood structure, adobe, earbuds, mirror, sound "10/ 25/ 2019 (full day) The Largest March in Chile" from the sound archives of Galeria CIMA (Santiago, Chile) of the 2019-2020 Chilean protest movement known as the Estallido Social, and sound from symphony orchestra tuning.
96 in x 84 in x 84 in
MassArt Art Museum May-November 2025
During the 2019 social explosion in Chile an iconic monument in the center of Santiago was constantly defaced, re-contextualizing it according to the social demands of that day. Rather than taking the whole structure down, the monument was removed but the pedestal and mausoleum for an anonymous soldier was left intact and continuously activated by art actions. The idea of altering the reading of a monument or its support triggered the creation of Tilted Paradigm, a tilted pedestal that sinks through floor and wall while creating at the same time the inversion of the image of a house. The quincha and adobe construction relate colonial construction and indigenous processes. The cracks on the surface of the adobe are filled with copper, the main industry in the country and one that is deeply linked to its political history. Earbuds embedded on the adobe surface reproduce the archival sound of the first 24 hours of the social explosion and the tuning of a symphonic orchestra.