Chile: not to forget them (2018) 

To create this work, I was inspired by a creepy cover page of the Chilean newspaper Fortín Mapocho published in 1990. It showed mummified bodies by the dry climate of Pisagua in northern Chile of enforced disappearances and politically executed prisoners buried in mass graves. They were the evidence of the murders committed by the military during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.

A long piece of handmade felt about eight feet high describes the distinctive geophysical contour of my country. The brown and beige mottled felt fabric resembles the mountainous terrain of Chile, tightly compressed by reddish-brown ropes attached to rusty nails, silently dripping and staining the wall. Burlap mounds symbolize the bodies buried with potato sacks in which the military wrapped the corpses. These are hastily sewn onto the felt piece.

The geological terrain is a metaphor for the bodies and reveals the terror and pain they suffered.