En-plazamiento político

I don't really want to talk about favoritisms, but as I have to talk about one single piece of art, I'll choose the one I have in my thoughts these days. The name of this piece is (in spanish) “En-plazamientos políticos”, I think in english might be something like “Political In-placement”, but i'm not sure at all.

This piece of art is a public intervention of the chilean artist Carolina Ruff (I'ts funny to me, because I have an aunt that's named just like that, and it's not a very tipical name). She use to work with minoryties issues, as a feminist artist, but in this time she'd worked this topic from another side.

This intervention -as it's been represented on the picture- it's about emplacing green grass on the Constitution Square, outside the Moneda's building, in some specific zones where there were not grass before. But not just that.

This project have an estrategic undertone.

If you see the Constitution Square from top, it seem pretty much as a Kultrun (Mapuche instrument) on the grass covered part. But it is not completely covered. What she does in this project is to complete the Kultrun image with cementery pruned grass. She asked for a permission that allowed her to intervene the square for two hours, hired a truck that delivered the grass, and toke this photo.

After all this work, the published postal cards that were disposed in many souvenirs shops to be selled. This work, is amazing, because -as almost every postal card- she selled a image of something there's not. After the two hours she was allowed to intervene the space, everything went back to normal.

I think of this piece a lot, because I'm working whit the anti-postal concept by now, and this is a great referent for me.