The peruvian artist talks about her works Contornos and La Trama, exhibited in the 20th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil. In the video Contornos, the voice-over by Cristobal Alcibiades guides us through Huayllay, a stone forest near Cerro de Pasco in Peru, a 16th-century city that is being swallowed up by the country’s largest mine. La Trama is a carpet weaved with an ancient technique, using copper threads rather than straw. The product bears a strange relationship with tradition: it expresses domesticity and comfort, but is actually hard and cold. It evokes predatory mining. The artist states: “By neating this industrial copper in artesanal manner is a sort of gesture of returning it to artesanal practices, giving it back to the people".
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