Cabaña (Cabin), 2025

6 channel 2D animated video, wall drawing, intervened gallery window, painted aluminum signs, rocks and tree trunks

04:22 min

 

First exhibited at Gabriela Mistral Gallery in Santiago between March and April 2025

Cabin is an immersive video installation. Its first and only exhibition to date is currently on at the Gabriela Mistral Gallery in Santiago de Chile.

Through animation, Cabin invites the viewer to reflect on the boundaries of representation, blurring the lines between inside and outside, or between imagination and reality.

Upon entering the room, viewers finds themselves in a dark environment, surrounded by video projections that transform the room into a shadowy forest.

The forest is inhabited by animals, objects, plants and a person, which are progressively revealed. The video sequence confronts the viewer with a puzzling sequence of events and auditory cues that create mixed feelings of peacefulness and dread. Gabriela Mistral Gallery has a large picture window looking out to the street. A printed image with peep holes resembling holes on a wooden wall fills the window, creating small and lively light shafts that move as cars pass by. You can use these holes to peep from the installation onto the street and vice versa.

 

 

 

 

Curatorial Statement by Tomás Fontecilla

In Cabaña, geography and landscape operate as metaphors for the imaginative realm. It proposes a mental geography, one that transcends perceived space and allows for the weaving of connections between the individual and the collective, in both rational and emotional dimensions. The cabin, as a universal archetype of protection, is presented here as a container open to personal and intimate signifiers.

The title of the exhibition also alludes to the relationship between human beings and landscape. The cabin functions as a refuge from nature, as a structure of containment in the face of the intangible. In literature, art, and psychology, this archetype evokes simplicity, safety, and a return to the essential. It is a space of retreat where the individual reconnects with themselves and with the natural world, far from the chaos of modern life.

Yet it also represents a place of personal transformation, where isolation fosters introspection and renewal. The cabin sits at a liminal point between the civilized and the wild, the known and the unknown, the conscious and the unconscious.