Reino Ruin.
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, 2015.
Reino ruin. Plaster, styrofoam, metal stands, glass, foam, industrial and organic found materials.
Fauxniture. Plaster, styrofoam, metal stands, glass, foam, mineral powder, industrial and organic found materials.
Reino Ruin
Wondering about what could be a contemporary ruin in a country lacking classical ruins, with destroyed indigenous remnants and an incomplete modernity like Chile, I connected with personal and collective memory— something between sediment and simulation—by constructing false ruins with market waste.
The installation Reino ruin is a visual display of this material discourse. By mixing organic, industrial, and cultural remnants, it aims to articulate an order of entropy, where the whole appears unified under a simulated condition of decay. These false ruins, resembling furniture without any past glory or temporal hierarchy, challenge historical linearity in an event of simultaneous decadence.
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The installation Reino ruin is a visual display of this material discourse. By mixing organic, industrial, and cultural remnants, it aims to articulate an order of entropy, where the whole appears unified under a simulated condition of decay. These false ruins, resembling furniture without any past glory or temporal hierarchy, challenge historical linearity in an event of simultaneous decadence.
