Otoño

Surrounded by both the sea and mountain ranges, we grew up in a country shaped by the permanent effort to strengthen its democracy. However, the imposed system forced us to grow up alone, getting stuck on the TV or hanging around the streets while the adults worked.

We developed a way of understanding the world as a place in which the need to turn a personal issue into a political one has made us think of imagination as an intimate space of friction between theatre design and our realities as an engine of creation – a space of resistance.

OTOÑO (Autumn) is born from concentrating on the stimulus of our daily life, from what crosses our path as a collective to what is born from the most intimate of each individual. These stimuli are constantly intervened by a transitional context to a growing technological, digital and virtual era that emerges from the dialogue with our analog-digital and handcrafted forms.

We situate ourselves in the duality of the analog and the digital era that inspires and provides us with materials for creation. We nourish ourselves from the city, the country, and the official culture but also the erased, both from the computer and the natural landscapes. OTOÑO expresses the duplicity of our imagination: an outward projection that looks strong but ends up falling off by the force of the internal nest where we could embrace what seems to weigh us down and turn it into material to show our sensitive spots. “Autumning” is giving home to life.

We shelter ourselves in a nest that can contain all those autumn leaves as a great source that feeds on this constant fall. We are fertile soil opening the door to an imaginative-creational cycle, while rethinking our place in an analog-digital world. We are natives of the fall, destruction and construction, capable of moving and transiting constantly through both worlds of the neo-liberal Chile that, at its crossroads, let us see how ominous it is to inhabit this technological maelstrom of individuality.

Country/Region Chile

Curator Valentina San Juan Standen

Curatorial Team Daniela Portillo Cisterna, Macarena Abarca Flores