Claudia Vásquez Gómez
Visual artist

Milímetro a Milímetro. Salar de Atacama, Chile. 2007

Laguna Cejar. Writing of the text MILÍMETRO A MILÍMETRO using sand from the site. Duration, variable. Dimensions 0.40 x 60 m.  After its construction, the artist asks the residency participants to read aloud the following text: «Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there. I always suspected that I […]

Ejercicios de alta tensión. Alto Patache, Chile. 2007

Performance. Alto Patache is a fog oasis in the Atacama Desert, where the camanchaca envelops the landscape and generates life in one of the driest territories on Earth. 168 km to the north, Pisagua was the detention camp where the dictatorship chose this same extreme desert to disappear bodies — a mass grave discovered only […]