Amérika Bahia de las Flechas (2016)

It is said that in the year of 1492 the first European ship led by Christopher Columbus disembarked on the coast of Samaná presentday Dominican Republic and was received by a rain of arrows carefully plotted by the Caribbean Taíno Presently a saline lake named after the Taíno chief Enriquillo witnesses profound ecosystemic changes leading to species migration forced evacuation and an expanding choral desert revealing the lakes geologic past Taking the camera itself as an arrow a foreign body Amérika Bay of Arrows looks for ways in which to animate to awaken to make vibrate again this gesture in the present arrows against a perpetual falling sky