Vicente Fuenzalida Lafourcade

Vicente Fuenzalida Lafourcade
Señuelo

fine arts

Mentoren:
Bart Lodewijks Hans Theys

Links:
@_vicentefuenzalida
http://www.vicentefuenzalida.net

This piece was conceived and created in the city of Ghent and attempts to understand fishing as an activity that operates through possibility and creates, in waiting, a space for imagination. I approach this attempt by observing fishing as a symbolic figure, especially the object of the float, which connects what happens in the depths with what we see on the surface—what alerts us to the shift from possibility to realization.

The installation consists of a video recording of a painted rod floating in the canal with a precarious system. The camera is fixed, and the rod drifts across the frame until it disappears. On the floor, several rods with undulating and graceful shapes are grouped; the stones and bottles once used to keep them afloat now serve to support and hold the rods upright in a fragile and balanced manner.

It is important to note that the choice of fishing stems from my biographical connection to this activity in the surroundings of Osorno, Chile—my hometown—and the observation of fishermen in the city of Ghent.

Vicente Fuenzalida Lafourcade Señuelo

Vicente Fuenzalida Lafourcade
Señuelo