Highland Memories

The residency took place at the GPA (Grupo de Publicaciones Artísticas) Artistic Publications Laboratory, at the Faculty of Arts of Universidad Finis Terrae, in Santiago, Chile, as a space where research already underway since 2018 on the mountain found an editorial form: the three archives that had until then circulated as separate photographs — the images from the artist’s father, an engineer and collaborator with the dictatorship, documenting large-scale construction projects between 1970 and 1990; the artist’s own survey of the urban edges of the Santiago Metropolitan Region, begun in 2021; and the SERNATUR archive, now held at the National Library, with images from 1976 to 1994 tied to the construction of national identity during the dictatorship and the first years of the return to democracy — came together and settled into the artist’s book «Fracturas Expuestas,» produced in an edition of 25 copies in 2024, where fracture stopped being merely a photographed subject and became an editorial principle: something read in the cut of the pages, in the sequence of images, and in the very materiality of the paper.