IMÁGENES EN TRÁNSITO
2005
Public intervention project carried out near Galería H10 in Valparaíso [Chile] between February and January 2005, whose main works were 4 oil paintings on canvas of 37 x 26 cm, in drawing pad format that H10 refers to.
250 invitations cards to participate in the work of the showcase gallery were distributed in different places in Cerro Alegre and Concepción, in Valparaíso [Chile]. They question the viewer’s stance towards contemporary art spaces and were to be deposited in the showcase of the Galería de Artes Visuales H10 during the exhibition period in March 2005. Items such as coins, bills, paper, travel postcards, bus and train tickets, receipts, and candies were deposited and collected along with the answers on each card during the exhibition. The photographic material was lost in a fire in the artist’s studio, this fact gave birth to her following project: Catastro in 2008. Galería H10 ran from 2004 to 2011. It ended with a final publication that brought together the 100artists collaborating in the venue.
For this work, the artist distributed a survey on visual art consumption habits that anyone living nearby the gallery was asked to fill out and deposit in the small showcase that had been arranged as a reception mailbox. At the end of the exhibition, of the 230 surveys distributed, only 7 were properly filled out and placed in the mailbox. However, the passers-by who walk through this spot daily (Aníbal Pinto Square) spontaneously left different types of objects that turned out to be elements of greater communication and more engaging than the invitations designed to achieve such an objective: to create a link with the public.
Soledad Novoa Donoso [excerpt from16 boletos de micro].
Exhibition photographs: Angie Saiz
Registros fotográficos: Angie Saiz