Gold Sweet

Title: Gold Sweet

Year: 2011

Measures: 40.6 x 50.8 cm and 50.8 x 40.6 cm each photo

Technique: HD Video (color, sound)

Duration: 84’00”

Edition: 1/5

The work of Benitez is inserted within an artistic movement more comprehensive attempts to re-articulate the meanings of everyday life and the public space, through community activities or actions participatory, wondering what separates the art of the daily praxis and politics. Gold Sweet directs your eye to the origin, to the rural space of Pichingal, in the Maule region, and makes us partakers of a small production system that rethinks the relationship with the land and the livelihoods. Through his immersion in the industry membrillera family opened up a conversation about new ways of habitability urban-rural in a territory of increasing inter-connectivity and hybridization, in a land that trembles and a culture that is increasingly globalized. Gold Sweet stems from her interest in the intangible heritage that exists in the chilean countryside, in the evolution of post-colonial rural territory, and the creation of alternative economies of subsistence small-scale, that are born to floats in a context dominated by the free market.