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NIEBLA
NIEBLA
2023
2 CHANNEL VIDEO INSTALLATION
This work explores the gap between the legal frameworks that regulate territory, the centralized visions of “development,” and the lived realities of communities in Southwest Antioquia, Colombia. The installation juxtaposes the abstract language of law and policy with the material, everyday landscapes of a region recognized as a biodiversity hotspot.
Through parallel projections, it presents both the territory as it is and the speculative transformations it might undergo if the multinational company AngloGold Ashanti were to advance its copper mega-mining project in the area. On one screen, the viewer encounters the textures of the existing landscape—its rivers, mountains, and forests; on the other, a possible future of extraction, fragmentation, and loss.
By splitting the visual field, the work materializes the contradictions between discourse and experience, legality and life, “progress” and ecology. It reveals how communities that inhabit these territories navigate an asymmetrical struggle, where decisions are imposed from afar while the consequences are borne locally.
Ultimately, the installation asks how we perceive and represent transformation at the scale of a landscape: not only as a matter of resources and legality, but as a lived, embodied environment that sustains culture, memory, and biodiversity.