Interview with Voluspa Jarpa

Abstract

The interview asks how the transition from historiographic investigation to the poetic of the creations of the chilean visual artist Voluspa Jarpa took place, whose reading of the archives and their deconstruction articulate a reinterpretation of the past and a reinterpretation of the conception of History, architecting “strategies of visibility”. In this way, according to the “critical elaboration system” of these creations, we are interested in finding out how strategic operations of visibility are used in contemporary artistic production. Jarpa's creations are considered to be “objects without bulls”, as they are works in relation to which we do not dominate expectations and interpretations. The problematic conceptualization of the term installation is emphasized, as its contours fray in a built environment, assemblage, site-specific and in situ, among other definitions of artistic productions that launch the work in space, using, for this, very variable materials, building a place whose movement is due to the relationship between objects and the body of the participant who travels through the work, circulating between its folds and openings. Jarpa's creations produce slips and contamination of meaning, so it is necessary to “operate due to problems”, because its polysemy works as an interpretive key for multiple objects, images and experiences, since it refers to an indefinite procedure, functioning as a device whose frayed borders establish flows in multiple directions, but have a concrete strategic function and are always part of a power relationship.