Incas of Emergency
Sala SAM - Instituto Chileno Norteamericano de Cultura. Santiago
Certain vices of post-90s Chilean art are evident in the proposal of Incas of Emergency: a tautological propension in the thematized work itself, and a distance between aesthetic experience and art discourse. Something paradoxical comes from the feeling that Felipe Zilleruelo, Carlos Acuña, Pablo Carrasco and Rodrigo Uriví emerged as a collective in 2003 with intentions of stirring up the academized and endogamic local scene.
Their participation in 2008 in the incisive VI Biennale of the National Museum of Fine Arts, seemed to confirm this. The group once again breaks the experience of the exhibition hall. That aesthetics of deconstruction and the recycling of two precarious structures, built with wood beams and panels as straight lines, planes and superimposed angles, remains. Constructions crumble; geometries and landscape elements emerge. In between lines, lit screens; farther away, suspended pieces of rock. In the videos, images turn into forms, plane colors and pixels; pure codes. Thanks to the text by the curator, Sebastián Vidal, we understand that the exhibition intends to expand concepts from a science fiction book published by the group two years ago. It is the staging of a ucronic (fiction projected in time) story; “the vision of a fractured future that speaks of the shortcomings and controversies of Chile today”.
