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Title
Apacheta
Creator
Ovejero, Graciela (Argentine installation artist, born 1956)
Larson, Mason Niel
Contributor
Chávez, Patricio
Lara, Mario (American installation artist, born 1950)
InSITE94
Date Created and/or Issued
1994
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection
inSite Archive: Selections
Rights Information
Unknown
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Description
Sculpture and Installations
Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art
San Diego-based Argentinian artist Graciela Ovejero created an installation for inSITE94 at the Centro Cultural de la Raza entitled "Apacheta." Drawing on Ovejero's personal heritage, the installation focused on the myth of Pachamama, or Mother Earth as it still exists in the belief of natives from the northern part of Argentina. One way that Pachamama is honored is by the construction of stone mounds called apachetas. For her installation the artist built a technological apacheta out of TV monitors, situated on a floor of soil and showing a video diptych, each video respectively titled "The Journey" and "Aspects and Manifestations." The videos were in response to the artist's relationship to the earth and how her cultural background has informed that relationship. --inSITE94
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)
This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 03, Item 263)
[Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Centro Cultural de la Raza (San Diego, Calif.)
Type
image
Format
Video monitors; soil
Form/Genre
sculpture (visual work)
installations (visual works)
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb5259008s
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Mythology
Nature
Video art
Diptychs
Sculpture (visual work)
Installations (visual works)
Mexican-American border region
Argentina
InSITE94
Place
Mexican-American border region
Argentina

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