• Authors: Menene Gras Balaguer, Fernando Reyes Matta, Gerardo Claps Gallo.
  • Spanish | English
  • 978-84-936363-2-6
  • €60,00 | Hardcover | 32.3 x 24.7 cm | 372 page
  • Casa Asia and CDAN (Huesca Art and Nature Center) | Barcelona, ​​2008
  • Government of Chile (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Directorate of Cultural Affairs), IPD Foundation (Institute for Promotion and Development)
60€

This book contains the project that the artist Magdalena Correa explored this by relating the Gobi Desert (China) and the Atacama Desert (Chile), identifying them with two antagonistic territorial typologies, which she investigated for two years, associating them not only with climatology but also with their respective inhabitants—nomads in one case and sedentary in the other. This work was preceded by a trip to Patagonia and the resulting project, “Austral,” which also became a book. The origins of this work lie in the artist's interest in the toponymic figure of the “desert” and its various forms. The incorporation of these geographies into her work expands upon the contribution she began a few years ago with her documentation of urban architecture, which she then contrasted with the desolate landscapes of this part of the world. This volume is related to the exhibition that opened as part of the activities that Casa Asia programmed for LOOP 2008, as it consists of a set of video installations and light boxes containing opposing moving images of both deserts.

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