Estela Blanca
Main Article Content
Abstract
This visual essay gathers a limited selection of images as a sample, from a bigger visual archive, configured in the last years around extractivism. This archival material, or its configuration, can be defined as a methodological tool, which has been relevant for my artistic practice, resulting in a starting point for research and/or production projects. Started in 2016 as research material for the piece The Skin of Labor (Lisbon, 2016) and stretched during the last year for the piece Estela blanca (Lima, 2019); This essay suggests the reader a point of approach to extractive dynamics and social and environmental impacts in a context where the logics of post-neoliberalism and extractive capitalism in South America and the Amazon region have been transformed, posing new challenges in this territory. This selection composes an intermittent visual historiography on natural rubber extraction, with special emphasis on the Amazon region, linking this material with the visual archive of manufactured products derived from this raw material, taken from the Second Industrial Revolution to these days.
Downloads
Article Details
Index, revista de arte contemporáneo maneja sus derechos bajo licencia Creative Commons Reconocimiento-NoComercial 4.0. En ese sentido los envíos quedan sujetos a la decisión del autor.