Saturday, February 18, 2006

Chile Project

The project: Chile's Tri-Colored History

On the left, the Unidad Popular years, pictures of Allende, etc. In the middle, below, Pinochet, the Junta, torture, repression, shadows, evil, dark forces, etc. On the right, the new Chile emerging from the dark shadows and entering a period of excessive commercialization and economization, meaningless consumption and ratification democracy. Includes images of the abuse of natural resources: indifference, huge Liders, Blockbusters, McDonalds. The illusion of a better Chile, of "economic growth" and "development". Advertisement, white anorexic women, huge tree trunks on trucks, malls, the americanization of Santiago, poverty , islands of prosperity in a sea of poverty, poblaciones, unemployment, etc.