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Ritual Inhabitual (Florencia Grisanti et Tito Gonzalez Garcia)
Special mention 2016
In January and February 2015, following a trip to southern Chile, to the Amerindian communities of Lake Budi in the Araucanía region, this photographic study of the actors in the main rituals of the Mapuche people was born: Mapuche means Man (Che) of the Earth (Mapu).
Between 1881 and 1883, Chile carried out a “pacification” campaign that was nothing more than a militarized invasion of Indian territory, which until then had enjoyed autonomy granted by the Spanish crown. A bloody campaign, this date marks the beginning of the conflicts between the Chilean state and the Mapuche that continue to this day.
Tito Gonzalez Garcia and Florencia Grisanti decided to work with wet collodion on glass plates, as this technique (reminiscent of the ethnographic work of the late 19th century) requires a long pause that creates a special relationship between the person photographed and the camera lens. This technique pushes the person into a kind of trance in which he or she can lose control of his or her own image. The result is not the condensation of a gesture, but rather a state of mind.