Other works of incalculable patrimonial value, which belong to the collection of the Museo de Arte Popular Americano Tomás Lago (MAPA), are added to the works resulting from this experience. In this way, the installation sets up a dialogue about heritage production of this noble trade, passed down from generation to generation.
Part of Josefina Guilisasti’s proposal was to record video testimonies of the potters. In it, the potters talk about their ways of life and family subsistence, whose continuity is in permanent danger due to environmental threats to their raw material and the precariousness in which they carry out their art. The video is, therefore, a wake-up call about the need to address the problems of this place, and safeguard its cultural heritage, as well as an invitation to investigate the generational differences when facing new perspectives in regard to heritage.
Artists and artisans are the ones who present and are presented in Quinchamalium Chilense, a task in which an artist approaches a community and, along with local artists, erases the boundaries between the work of an artist and an artisan, in search of new forms of representation that allow the expression of those footprints of memories, ancient practices and daily experiences. These are transmitted in each of the pieces that are part of this artistic presentation. The invitation is made in such a way so as to stress certain concepts like; serialization, repetition, and collectiveness, instead of concepts such as: creation, autonomy, subjectivity and the possibilities that collaborative work entails.
