The following piece is about the work of GCAS’s own Clara Bolivar. Clara Bolivar is a researcher and curator on modern and contemporary art from Mexico and works closely with GCAS Latino America based in Santiago, Chile.

For the sincere approbation that this work deserves, please find the following link on the obra or oeuvre of the artists here. The work entitled “Follow the Dust” considers:

“minimal matter in constant movement that results from the wear produced by the interaction between bodies and materials, which is lifted by the wind to relocate it and bury it again until chance and circumstance dictate another place for it.”

With powerful contemplation such as:

“Erosion shapes the earth's crust due to the effect of wind, rain, maritime and glacial processes and the actions of living beings. The artistic work investigates the effects of wear resulting from extractive violence that the eye cannot distinguish, but which in a close look, show the historical continuities in the forms of territorial exploitation.”

One has to give credence to the insight and questions that are happening in this project.

And finally the last insightful words of this project ring:

“Artistic practices give dust a voice as a material witness and transforming agent in expanded times that remained under the imposition of so-called progress, which has resulted in imposed hierarchies of human beings and the "non-human". Underneath neglect, indifference, dispossession, and forced silence, voices raise from artistic research and community efforts, where spaces for enunciation, inquiry, encounter, transformation, and flourishing are opened.”

This work, done by Clara Bolivar in conjunction with Comunidad Catrileo + Carrión gives GCAS great pleasure to share. For more information about the work and to see more art please visit the sites linked above. If you need a small taste of what great work is being done then here are some sample photos: