Le royaume

2008 Embassy of France in Chile - Santiago, Chile.

1:1 scale limousine, built with scrap materials.  Conditioned with music and interior lighting.

Photographic record

© Jorge Brantmayer and © Norton Maza

Within the framework of a neoclassical architecture and the French embassy in Santiago de Chile, the artist installs a reproduction of a limousine at 1:1 scale made with waste materials, imitating all the details of a real limousine. Inside, a glamorous scene is recreated, together with three models, emulating the advertising language of desired luxury. The limousine becomes a kind of Trojan horse, which is observed, and invites you to enter, but at the same time in a game of transvestism proposed by the artist, installing a double discourse, that of luxury and glamor sold to us by advertising, with that of precariousness, which is made visible through the materiality of the work.

Text : Luz Muñoz Rebolledo