Early Forgetting
Moto Gallery, Santiago de Chile -2008
Installation
Plywood and stamped wood, lights
4 x 3 m.
Early Forgetting is made up of 24 blocks of plywood. Each block acts independently and is supported vertically on the ground. Inside, a cut out of an architectural silhouette, generating a void in the wood; a void through which light enters and casts a spectrum of shadows on the walls. The different elements grouped on the ground, form a site of 4.00 x 4.00 m2.
Early Forgetting has its origin in the concept of the neighborhood; understood as a small fraction of a city with its own identity. The neighborhood contains the residential and structural order of a capital, but on a smaller scale, the main characteristic that define a neighborhood is its demographics or its population, coexisting as such due to a common sense of belonging among its inhabitants and neighbors.