Art
2023
Amauta García & David Camargo
Lullaby (video, 2022, 10')
The video work Arrullo is a mythology aimed at breathing new life into two dead volcanoes discovered in the Wadden Sea. Instead of analyzing these discoveries, filmmakers Amauta García and David Camargo evoke an oral tradition, a kind of folklore with which they aim to bring us as an audience back to this land and honor these geological giants. Can we develop a relationship with the earth in which we are not solely concerned with how we, as humans, can benefit from it? And can we express love for the land without exploiting it?
Amauta and David were guided by the question of where their families came from. Together they delved into the history of Amauta’s mother, who participated in 1971 in the largest illegal land invasion in Latin America in the volcanic enclave in the south of Mexico City. In Arrullo, they pose the question to themselves and the viewer: How can we relate to the earth beyond its exploitation? How do the people who have made land relate to the volcanoes that create or destroy our world? The result is a dialogue between the volcanic soil of their homeland and the Dutch underwater volcano Zuidwal, in the Wadden Sea halfway between Harlingen and Vlieland - an area wounded by years of gas extraction.
Amauta García and David Camargo are a Mexican artist duo that has been exploring the intersection of architecture, sculpture, in situ interventions, moving images, and virtual environments since 2011, as instruments for the intervention and redefinition of social and political processes.
Amauta García - https://amautagarcia.com/
David Camargo - @camargo03
