Installation
Object + video
Variable measures
Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. 2024
Refuge built in the Museum of Contemporary Art

I travel through Santa Cruz de la Sierra, I recognize myself in it. It is my first approach to the work and my first visit to this city, which I find more globalized than I expected. In the huge Mercado Mutualista, I buy my first cart and the bags that will accompany me throughout this experience.

My journeys become increasingly intense, the smells and the gazes on the street overwhelm me.

In the Museum space, I begin the construction with what I have collected. First, I delimit my territory by taking up the circle of stones I have been using since 2020.

Trash has texts, trash also speaks. A cardboard with the brand of feminine hygiene towels Nosotras (founded in Colombia, sold throughout Latin America) appears alongside a Coca Machucada container from the brand El Tóxico. A plastic bag with the Eco brand logo and a sun from a bag of potato chips, part of a frozen potato container by Simplot (which supplies brands like McDonalds and Burger King around the world).

Branches and construction wood form the structure that holds it, and I intertwine them with parts of local plants like Paichachi, along with some Air Plant in bloom. In the center, a kind of receptacle bowl, part of a Pindá palm bark, very typical of Santa Cruz.