MICROPERFORADO, 2012.

CCU ART SPACE, SANTIAGO, CHILE.

SELF-ADHESIVE VINYL FOR WINDOW VISION AND CUTTING.

VARIABLE DIMENSIONS

"Microperforado" takes the site-specific condition as its point of departure, understanding material transformation as the starting ground from which this work, installed in the courtyard of Sala CCU, was developed.

The chosen site was a glass wall located in the building’s exterior courtyard, divided into nine panels with a total length of sixteen metres and varying heights ranging between one and two-and-a-half metres. I intervened directly upon the adhesive surface through incisions made along only two of the edges forming isosceles triangles, allowing each triangle to be lifted and joined with its upper counterpart, thereby activating its tonal duality. The intrinsic qualities of the adhesive material — opacity, translucency and flatness — converged within a work that I now understand as deeply intuitive and strongly formal in character.

"Microperforado" was an exercise in pushing a flat material towards volumetric presence. It unfolded in dialogue with the architecture of the site, seeking to reveal spaces that simply already existed there, waiting to be perceived.