Shock of a permanent border

2011, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes - Santiago, Chile.

Plush case (22x18x4 cms). National coat of arms in bronze with dividing walls with painted aluminum surveillance booths (9×10 cm). Showcase with mirrors and glass embedded in the wall (55x40x40 cms).

National Coat of Arms of Chile in bronze exhibited inside a showcase with mirrors, which is embedded in a false wall, the shield is perfectly divided, each piece is enclosed by walls that incorporate guardhouses or panopticons that ensure the visibility of the guarded, as the functioning of power, making visible the political and socioeconomic division of Chilean society.

Texte: Luz Muñoz Rebolledo