Cultivating the Landscape: Questions on the Visual Production of Territory

In the Chilean context, this construction is linked to a colonial gaze that has represented territory as empty and available for exploitation, influencing both national identity and dominant visual narratives .

The text proposes the garden as a critical device: an everyday space where tensions between nature and control become visible, allowing the analysis of how relationships with territory are produced, regulated, and potentially transformed.

Landscape thus emerges as an active construction rather than a given condition, requiring processes of re-signification that unsettle its colonial foundations and open alternative modes of relating to place.