Patrones de una piel destruida

The project is developed from visual codes that have been re-signified to bring to the collective consciousness a part of history that remains silent. Through photography, devices are activated that serve as catharsis for one public, indignation for others, and/or reception of data and facts to understand the effects caused by the exploitation of rubber in entire communities in the Amazon, where people were tortured, mutilated and killed by a labor system that enslaved them. Rubber, whose name means "the tree that cries", grew at that time in the Amazon. Its extraction meant a profitable business in the face of the demand for "white gold" in Europe, and its important economic bonanza for the Peruvian state. In this sense, the project proposes to open discussions around the memories of rubber. Taking as references historical facts about the extractivist system in the Amazon, in parallel to the birth of the tire industry. The project transits -from the metaphor- the Putumayo and Amazon rivers, rivers that witnessed the genocide. Likewise, the tire and other rubber derivatives become symbols of the narrative. The wheel in motion, as a metaphor for "progress", is one of the key points to go through this "visual journey" to the asphalt jungle. It also finds an urgency to vindicate the indigenous memory, to heal the destroyed skin.