Claudia Huenchuleo Paquien
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Indissoluble Geographies

Inspired by the critical discourse of Kathryn Yusoff, Indissoluble Geographies questions geophysics of whiteness and the forces of gravity and counter-gravity to consider new narratives for indigenous subjectivities and geocoded bodies.

Geology, as an historical regime of material power, produces subjects and materials worlds. Emerging in colonialism, geology created a language for the description of matter, accumulation and dispossession, and a legacy of racialized subjects. Infrastructures of materiality, forms of mining and psychic conditions of extraction migrated to social spaces.

The works are part of the four movements of Lof in Transit. Link to essay: Third Movement, Counter Gravity and Geophysics of Race

What allows whiteness to levitate as a metaphysical and geophysical force?

—Kathryn Yusoff

 

Indissoluble Geographies (2022), alpaca wool, horse hair, my father’s handwriting, 103” x 90” (262 cm. x 229 cm., dimensions variable)

The paper-like structure has a light body floating in the air. Its brown tone layers remind us of the stratum. The cloth displays a Mapuche principle that reflects on all possible geomorphological forms of life. The piece speaks to indigenous and settler worldviews coexisting in different places, planes and geographies.