COMMUNITY
2009
Instalación
Lynchings are common in Guatemala, which is due to the collective desperation resulting from a combination of circumstances such as poverty, lack of security, distrust of the authorities, and so on. This piece consists of a series of scenes represented with sculptures of approximately one centimeter in height. In 2000, an incident took place in which a Japanese tourist and the driver of the vehicle in which they were moving were lynched in the town of Todos Santos Cuchumatán, in the department of Huehuetenango, because the Japanese tourist, while trying to photograph a group of children, was mistaken by the community for a child kidnapper. With this and similar news, I imagine the international community seeing Guatemala from abroad, as a small country full of small savage people.
