Body Hidrography

R.A.R.O Residency Buenos Aires - 2019

The project presented for the Matta cultural center, in the city of Buenos Aires, uses the body as a collective support, in order to build a hydrographic basin where its variations and riverbed is given by the corporal scale. The plan is to create a network of water that simulates being a river in movement, and that its condition is to branch out into the room, from fragments. The idea for this project is to work with a group of volunteers and teach them about the techniques of clay, to later develop artisanal tubes based on molds of the body of each participant (mainly limbs, thighs, , arms, hands, feet) and with this a hydrographic network would be made, where its flows are representations of the body and condition, considering diferent ages and body types. The entire modeling and firing process took place in the Argentine capital, and once the show was over, the participants could take the corresponding pieces with them.

The origin of this project lies in the thigh tiles, a work carried out by the working class of almost all latin american countries, during the time of the Spanish conquest. These tiles are made according to the body measurement of the manufacturer's thigh, being a kind of body imprint on the roof of a house. This technique (already part of a tradition) is maintained to this day, in the Chilean countryside.

The location of this installation consists of a variation of order and placing the tiles inverted, so that they contain and irrigate the water through their concave part. From Santiago, the connectors to branch the linear network will be designed and manufactured, a water pump and a number of liters of water contained in an industrial drum will be discarded, which will decant in a pool built with PVC plastic.

The project treats the territory as an extension of the body, which is available to be traversed by the local water, which flows from the city tap, a kind of blood system that the inhabitants of the same place make up.

 Project in Colaboration with R.A.R.O and Matta Cultural center

 
 
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