Los pliegues del atrapaniebla (2018)
The installation of a fog catcher in El Tofo—an abandoned mining site in the Coastal Range of Chile’s Coquimbo Region—sought to observe and reveal an invisible transformation in nature: the capture of camanchaca, a dense oceanic mist whose name in Aymara (kamanchaka) means “darkness.” For eight months, the sculpture silently collected this airborne humidity, which emerges at dawn from the sea and dissipates into the valley throughout the day.
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Rather than proposing a technological solution, this fog catcher poses a question about how we relate to landscape. It resists both the extractivist logic of green technologies and the conservative impulse to enclose nature for its protection. Through its scale, materiality, and formal experimentation, the work offers a poetic gesture of resistance—a fold between species, art, and territory.
The project was developed during the ARC Art/Science Residency, an interdisciplinary platform that invites artists and scientists to collaborate as resident agents, fostering exchanges of methods and perspectives to generate new transdisciplinary knowledge.
