Your own matter is the confluence of everything (Phase 1) is a

project oriented to the creation and production of video essay scrip and
brief video art piece whit different archival materials, collected and
transformed during the residency process in V2_. The main materials
are press images and videos, 3d models, visual textures of minerals,
sound landscape records and fragments of interviews with historians,
geographers, philosophers, anthropologists, architects and other
citizens from Chile.

This body of artwork intends to address the phenomenon of duplication

of landscapes scenarios as territorial exploitation and material
transformation, which modulates our way of living and inhabiting the
space, and produces national identity.

I take as starting point the current architectural construction of a inner

chapel named “Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles” (Our Lady of the
Angels) in the Catalunya Park (ex Comunal Park), at Rancagua City,
Chile. In this park will be build the first religious monument of the
catalan architect Antonio Gaudí outside Spain. It will be a replica of a
inner chapel of the famous “Sagrada Familia” church in Barcelona.

I’m particularly interested in this architectural landmark- the replica of

the inner chapel- because the discourse surrounding its construction
claims a “symbolic recovery of forgiveness”; and a presumed “symbol
of poverty” and “austerity” that expects to “complete a global trajectory
of brotherhood between Chile/America and Spain” and a gesture of
“recognition of the american culture”. These are “symbolic, material
and ideological” understandings of an architectural landmark spread
through the colonial logics that are inherent of the financial capital and
its ways of organizing life and territories.

Your own matter is the confluence of everything (Phase 1) will try

to open up –from the creative work with graphic and sound archives as
visual narrative from grounded analysis but also poetical- the
ideological meanings assigned to the matter qualities and the symbolic
connections that are going to be “normalized” and “fixed” in the surface
of the chapel, but also in the context that it will be placed.