Of the landscape and its realms
2013 - Museum of Contemporary Art MAC - Santiago, Chile.
Construction that represents a 1:1 scale bunker of 7.50 X 5 X 3.20 meters located inside the museum. In its interior sculptural pieces made of resin and fiberglass with polychrome finish, also found and reused objects, attached to the wall and ceiling are perceived acrylic paintings that quote the history of art, on one wall there are cracks that reveal an exterior represented by dioramas, in the largest hole is projected a sky. Gregorian chant music in the background.
Photographic: Jorge Brantmayer
Time stands still. The clock stops milliseconds before the big explosion. Everything freezes. The only things that follow are Gregorian chants coming from a radio and a flickering light. The man, armed with a gold-plated pistol, is cornered in the living room of a bunker. He must be very dangerous: in order to finish him off, a missile has been launched.
What do we know about this individual from the objects scattered throughout the scene? A mirror decorated with nuns masturbating. Another mirror with two rows of cocaine. A table with armed Christian figures. A figure of a virgin propelled by rockets. A drawer with pornographic magazines and vibrators. A bottle of wine with two glasses. Stuffed animal heads, along with another of a person. No doubt the owner of that home has money, likes alcohol, sex and drugs. A drug dealer? A playboy? A corrupt politician? No! It's Jesus Christ in Calvin Klein underwear! He has a shrine to his own ego, and tattoos himself, because he is convinced he is a Marvel superhero.
Del paisaje y sus reinos presents Christ as a postmodern martyr, wearing a Rolex, a tattoo of the cross and a crown of thorns. Like a criminal crawling across the floor of his living room trying to elude the authorities. Far from asking for forgiveness, not for the sins of the world, but for his own, he barricades himself in his licentious bunker.
Through some cracks in the walls we can observe miniature war scenes. War dioramas that present us with a chaotic exterior, a planet about to be annihilated, oblivious to the inescapable destruction of God. We are privileged witnesses of the end of the one who, between line and line, between straw and straw, was our savior.
Text: Juan José Santos
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