Solo show – Alejandro Jaime
From: October 29th, 2014. Until: January 5th, 2015.
“Extraction, landscapes of empty”
Alejandro Jaime continues he´s research about the landscape and human intervention in the territory with Extraction, landscapes of empty, where hi pays attention on territorial transformations generated by large-scale mining and agriculture. Three paradigmatic places of history and geography of South America articulate he´s speech: Peruvian andenes, Cerro Rico de Potosi (Bolivia) and the Chuquicamata Mine (Chile).
The andenes are pre-Inca monumental adaptation GIS holding that ensured the survival of Andean populations; silver, precious metal extraction which made Cerro Rico in Potosi in the sixteenth century, the most important city in America for decades and the resource to which the mercantilist model deployed around the globe. While complex Chuquicamata mine increased production of copper in the world and the largest so now serves a hundred years the electronics industry.
These geographic marks on the peripheries not only set a new landscape in the territory, also shape economic, social and cultural landscape that holds the possibility of hegemonic centers and their development: the man permanently change the place around him to his advantage and it is charged with meaning to the landscape, through artistic representations that obey an intrinsic drive of their culture and give rise to a “new nature”.
These geographic marks on the peripheries not only set a new landscape in the territory, also shape economic, social and cultural landscape that holds the possibility of hegemonic centers and their development: the man permanently change the place around him to his advantage and it is charged with meaning to the landscape, through artistic representations that obey an intrinsic drive of their culture and give rise to a “new nature”. Think of the works as triangular empty hillside, with branched internal structure of the hill and the thumping in the Chilean desert like landscapes positive vacuum are built on the idea and form of what no longer exists, allows us to define Nature call that fiction, reality and walk creating permanently incorporate into our imagination through art.
About the artist:
Alejandro Jaime [Lima, 1978]
Bachelor of Arts with honors in painting from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, has studied Photography, Landscape, Public Space and ephemeral architecture. He has developed an interdisciplinary artwork aimed at peripheral spaces that evoke concern and territory boundaries. He has received grants for art residencies in Argentina, Ecuador, Germany, the US and Mexico, where he exhibited their proposals. He has participated in-group exhibitions in Bolivia, Spain, Chile, Germany, Mexico and Ecuador.