APACHETA

APACHETA

2013

MAC, Lima, Perú

For some time now in Peru, the notions of monumentality and public space seem to have lost their bearing in the terrain of representation. And in recent years, streets, squares and monuments seem to have become the space of negotiation and conflict with which the citizenry faces its desires, the memory of its most recent history and its own imaginary. The old network of patriotic symbols and their rituals of republican commemoration in the squares, statues and avenues is made of monumental fossils that rest patiently against the horizon, awaiting inevitable oblivion or something that will breathe them back into life. Faced with the State’s gradual abandonment of the notion of the public in terms of citizenry, territory and space, the long national saga of informal occupation transforms the country’s public spaces, its squares and monuments, streets and wastelands into a veritable no man’s land, in the best of the cases. But in the worst of them, in a land of the few (...)

Rodrigo Quijano

Lima 04 / Horizontes Compartidos