“Mojón”
Curatorial description
“(Des)Límite: Infinite Landscape”: Despite the current moment of information
revolution that allows accelerated communication between peoples, generating a
cross-border opening for cultural exchange, this same liberation of information
provokes resistance in its control as well as manipulation of its contents. On
the other hand, despite the scope of communication technologies, we are
witnessing the increase in territorial conflicts such as constructions of
walls, invasions, migratory phenomena, expansion of influence zones,
overlapping of limits, etc.
Locally, in Chile, South America, the genealogy of the limit was initially established
by the Tahuantinsuyo Empire up to the Maule River, and as a reference landmark,
The Descabezado Grande Volcano. The complex Inca worldview allowed the
occupation of the Andes territory through the so-called “Camino del Inca” (inca
trail) that ends precisely in this area, leaving archaeological vestiges such
as a series of petroglyphs and “MOJONES” as a system of territorial
demarcation, in addition to a supposed UFO landing platform. This “AMOJONAMIENTO”
of territorial demarcation not only had a political function to demarcate a
domain of socio-productive spades, but also had an important mystical and cult
interest.
Upon arrival of the Spanish administration, it validated its demarcation but
not its rituality, releasing the Inca worldview in its territorial planning,
incorporating a cartographic jurisprudence, and with the Chilean independence,
the separation of the states by the “highest peaks”, a rigid and insurmountable
virtual limit, a historical disputed area.
Despite this division, we can find phenomena that have constantly challenged
its jurisprudence: alternative smuggling routes; muleteers; ranchers; informal
stays; hermits; migrants; mountaineers; political guerrillas. Characters who
for one reason or another challenge the limit and territorial perception in an
infinite landscape.
