fire projects
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WISDOM
Bodies in the morgue, each with a flame on their forehead.
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SALVACIÓN
Synopsis: A key figure in the Salvadoran civil war lies in an anonymous bed in a hospital. On television, the moral judgment of the figure of a hero or a genocide is debated with a missing combatant who belonged to both sides of the war. In the last 12 minutes of his life, this old […]
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THE VOICE AT THE EDGE OF THE VOID
Synopsis: The story is about a child going through the different levels of the void while being guided by a voice-over that in turn criticizes his presence and the logic in which existence itself is articulated.
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WISDOM (VIDEOSKETCH)
Cuerpos en la morgue, cada una con una llama en la frente.
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STUDIES ABOUT DECONSTRUCTION
Video installation: Mobile/cell phones and mass media videos about the fire of the church “San Esteban”, in the center of the city of San Salvador on January 7 of 2013.
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COLLECTIVE IMAGINARIUM
Restricted space 2mx2mx2m with wire, razor, bones, soil, ashes.
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A DEATH FOR MY CHILDREN
Crashed, rusty, burnt Mustang car taken from a local scrap yard with the seats softly flaming along the night with kerosene and motor oil.
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MIDNIGHT SUNS
Two human skulls on fire.
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‘LA PALABRA’
Pipe of gasoline intervened with the words: “La Palabra” (The word).
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RITUM PERPETUUM
Intervention site specific to the gothic Church ‘El Calvario’ with incense smoke.
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HABEAS CORPUS
Open grave and bones on fire.
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DIALOGUES
Dining set (four chairs and a table) incinerated with oxyacetylene torch, placed in the middle of an empty space.
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ESSAY ABOUT GRAVITY
Wooden staircase is incinerated with 4 kinds of fuel (ether, gasoline, alcohol, esterine) until it is consumed.
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THE LIMIT
Steel reinforced. Gas hose. Ditch.
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SELFISOLATION
Transparent bulb with a virgin match inside.
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MASSES
Transparent lighter filled with human blood. Blood has three classes of anticoagulants (heparin, antithrombin and ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid, or EDTA).
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