Fragments of an impact (series)

2022/2023/2024

The fragments of an impact appear as if suspended in the air, gravitating inside showcases, testifying to a blowout from which pieces of earth were shot. Capsules containing goldsmith work, jewelry fashioned in the shape of places of pleasure of a select group. The fragments are stones and debris that Norton Maza collected after the impact, which is none other than the October 2019 Social Outburst in Chile.

With these remnants of the demonstrations, which were used as throwing weapons against the authorities, the artist creates small scenographies that refer to the most privileged part of society. The second home, the golf course or the swimming pool. Parallel microworlds that few have at their disposal.

They form an archipelago of mini-planets, like the Asteroid B612 of the Little Prince. Although this fable is not intended for the reader to poetically inhabit the world, but to manage to decode the small print of its most prosaic face. Through this metaphorical operation, Maza manages to connect the massive social revolt that shouted against political and corporate powers. That residue that remains of a charge, stones eroded by violent action.

Text: Juan José Santos