Carla Ayala

uncovering archive 2024
aerial views and mass tourism

My project proposes to think the link between landscape-images-violence through the analysis of the use of operative images of zenithal vision (drones and satellites) in the production of audiovisual material by contemporary creative practices (artists, designers, transdisciplinary collectives, etc). The above, mainly emphasizing those efforts to narrate and stress diverse geopolitical conflicts (colonialism, indiscriminate extraction of resources, overtourism, military interventions, among others) present in the territories that are recorded from the air.

Mi hipótesis de investigación se sostiene en que el proceso de registro de territorios, a través de dispositivos específicos que operan como vista de pajaro, llevan a la estructuración de lo que propongo como un paisaje-arma. Un constructo técnico, bélico, capital y visual que provoca el desborde del concepto de paisaje a partir del vínculo insoslayable que este mantiene con formas de violencia contemporánea.