10.000 - 30
Installation showcase developed during Fabrica research centre residency as part of the group show Blooming in Embers (2024)
https://bloominginembers.com/
Photographs by Gerda Studio
"10.000-30" is a research installation exploring daily life in Tierra del Fuego during the end of the 19th Century, acknowledging its complex history from a Chilean-Argentinian perspective. It follows Alessandra's journey from studying quotidian native practices to confronting settler colonialism and genocide in this region. The installation comprises two parts: the first presents narratives through ceramic works, covering displacement, nomadism and coexistence with earth.
The second part presents an archaeological site reimagining the same ceramic pieces and their imagined context through the eyes of a future civilisation that finds them in the place where they were created and presented (Fabrica Research Centre).
Alessandra's project reflects her evolving perspective, rejecting traditional texts to uncover and confront a painful past.
''[They] inhabited this land for more than 10.000 years but were displaced in less than 30''
Six publications were developed as part of the research project, to provide a context and better understanding about the topic covered by the project. These include both information and creative writing texts.
These were presented as a first contact with the exhibition, both in English and Italian.
Here you can read the english version, presented in the following order
1. Introduction
2. Weapons and crafts
3. Territory
4. Untitled
5. Into the deep: The practice of diving in Kawésqar women
6. Transport: Canoes / Canoas
