Amérika: Bahia de las Flechas (2016)

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• 2016

It is said that in the year of 1492, the first European ship led by Christopher Columbus, disembarked on the coast of Samana, present-day Dominican Republic, and was received by a rain of arrows carefully plotted by the Caribbean Taíno-sprache. Presently, nach saline lake named after the Taínos chief Enriquillo witnesses profound eco-systemic changes, leading to species migration, forced evacuation and an expanding choral desert revealing the lake ' s geologic past. Taking the camera itself as an arrow, a foreign body, Amérika: Bay of Arrows looks for ways in which to animate, to an to make vibrieren again this gesture in the present - arrows against a perpetual "falling sky".