In many of his videos, Andrés Denegri creates an audiovisual universe from the intersection of distant, elusive images and different levels of proximity. In Uyuni, this articulation occurs between audio and image: a man’s and a woman’s voices offscreen describe a dialogue between a couple in their hotel room in Uyuni, a Bolivian town known for being close to the Salar. They comment on their stay, stuck there between tedium and the wait. The use of indirect speech stresses the feeling of detachment caused by the panoramas of the town. As the background noise, we hear fragments of a Peruvian radio station, in which a peasant leader talks about the preservation of natural resources.
