OOMO

"Oomo" means "Burn" in native language of The Chiquitania, Bolivia. Adolescence is a transition process crossed by elements -internal and external - that builds their identity and shows some prints that come afloat. This project proposes light and color as the bridge between an identity with changing meanings and the new impulses that they face to. The colonial trace composed historically by the missions of the Jesuits, in the Bolivian Chiquitania, has caused that people was blurred, silenced, invisible in the primacy of the natural and architectural heritage of the region. These images are linked to the production of meanings that teenagers build and attribute individually or collectively to their reality, and that’s why it is mediated by the culture, values and perceptions of this social group that starts to emit own discourses. A subtle visual walk among the sensations they discover in this stage of their lives. An exercise of discovering trough the chromatic of self-representation. To feel through this reddish light - so characteristic of this province - the elements that generate a sense of belonging and the new feelings that are a reflection of an identity under construction, where the new, the modern, converges with that trace of the colony, still so present, in the towns of the region. Understand the components of a portrait, either human or symbolic ones, as the pieces of an encounter between light, color and form to read portions of a universe that represents the interweaving of meanings that give new ones to chiquitanian adolescents.