Claudia Huenchuleo Paquien
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Presencias Arbóreas

This work reflects on feelings of nostalgia and dislocation. I create from states of being that more than solipsistic states of the self are intrinsically connected to places and territories. Presencias Arbóreas was born as a need to communicate an experience that happened in my house sitting at my dining table looking toward a green belt just beyond my balcony, a perimontum.

My research includes non-human beings subjects, like trees, stones and objects, to construct narratives of being in-relation to places and decentering the human experience. Being in-relation refers also to a multi sensorial way of conceiving space. I bring sound as an element to expand space and time, a form of listening in relation with the land.

Presencias Arbóreas (2020-2022), video, taken with a cellphone from my balcony, and overlaid with a photograph of an installation in my dining room, 01:30 min

“Being [of plants] which is not an entity, but rather a “collective being,” a body of “non-totalizing assemblage of multiplicities, an inherently political space of conviviality.””
— Foreword, Plant Thinking, Vattimo and Zabala

Untitled (2020), photography of installation in my dining room.

Installation made of some of my everyday utilitarian objects such as ceramic ware (platos de greda), wool thread, mate and bombilla, mixed with domestic furniture randomly placed in a room referencing disturbed home routines.