Genealogy of color in publics objects Nuevos relatos en el contexto urbano practicado

Abstract

The content of this article discloses the creation of a pictorial and investigative technique called "lijography", which, through a certain methodology and using a type of non-conventional support such as sandpaper, allows to obtain the pigment of some public objects of the city of Santiago. Through the description of the procedures of the technique, some a priori and emerging categories that have been identified throughout its development will be detailed, revealing, in the case of the former, the "modus operandi" even before sanding the object. to intervene; and with regard to the second, the situations that arise during the investigation and that could temporarily stop the action at any given moment. At the same time, the consequences that manifested themselves after the confinement caused by the Coronavirus pandemic did not allow people to move freely through the streets, suggesting a temporary change in the way of proceeding.
Such research, which is still active today, reflects on the possibility of discovering and expanding the history of a public object through the creation of imaginaries by the viewer, allowing the establishment and development of a story that extends beyond the traditional descriptions of the object. intervened object, giving way to an opening of new dialogical contexts that establish a relationship between lijographic action, urban furniture, public space and passerby.

Technique, Lijography, Public space, Public object, Imaginary

Technique

Lijography

Public Space

Public Object

Imaginary