La (Re)constitución de los Andes

In the Inca language of Quechua, a Tinku is a meeting or encounter. It refers to a confrontation between complementary opposites, and the resulting transformation. A Tinku is what occurs in this installation, where on behalf of the Andes Mountains, the copper from Euro cent coins is contra-extracted and returned to its mineral beauty. The project emerges from Carlos Sfeir’s reflection on the ancestral values of his home country of Chile, field research among scientists in the last remaining wilderness — the Atacama Desert — and a desire to delink from the self-fulfilling binaries of coloniality/modernity. It is an authentic cry for emancipation on its own terms.