SASKIA CALDERÓN

Solar Eclpise

Title: Solar Eclipse
Modality: Video Performance
Duration: 3 minutes 10 seconds
Year: 2021
Photography: Video Stills

Solar eclipse of 529 years of duration.

I take as a reference the conquest of America initiated in 1492 as the starting point of a solar eclipse in which the Moon interposes itself to the Sun and leaves the day in darkness. You cannot see, darkness in the day and I sing the history of Western art as a game with time, between the present and the past, the history of a darkness, the night in the day, the darkness of art in America, a cultural eclipse, darkness that does not allow to see the Latin American art.

I made a random selection of the history of Western art since 1492, from the baroque to the present, singing various periods in an improvised musical way.

The processes of colonization and the elimination of religion, cosmovisions and specifically of the art that speaks in this work where this questioning and interrogations are present, how would art be without the conquest? What forms would we acquire without western influence? In addition, I am interested in rescuing the only forms that our pre-Hispanic ancestors have left us, which were utilitarian, sacred. Although the word art and its meaning did not exist, as would be the concepts of art without the western influence, it is a work that opens a number of questions that are important to build our artistic identity.

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