Apacheta (Zoology of Art)
Project in collaboration with Pablo Curutchet
Performative proposal that stimulates citizen participation in a public space, where the participating subject is part of the action, thus redefining the space where artistic discourses usually pass through.
Using the ritual of the apacheta as a symbolic instrument that allows us to conceptually resignify from the sculptural point of view this Andean custom of successively leaving stone on stone at a point along the way as an offering and anonymously. Apachetas or "mojones" are present in all the Andean countries with different variables and characteristics depending on the place.
It is not our purpose to literally replicate the structure and function of an apacheta, but to take its conformation and its meaning as a conceptual trigger to talk about the collective, as well as the multiculturalism present in our countries, since we think about art from the social and the collective erasing the pre-established limits between art-artist-curator-work, revaluing the character of "the anonymous" and the artists as architects or articulators of that collective construction.
Apacheta at SIART Biennial 2018
La Paz, Bolivia























