In the South American Series the process starts when the artist prepares and paints canvasses that are shortly afterwards torn apart and handed to different people who are invited to complete the process by bringing the pieces back together. A quick basting serves to articulate the process, as this way of binding them doesn’t require any sort of previous training and anyone can use their spare time to stick one fragment to another. Along with their stitches participants can shape their invisible thoughts and bring them to the artist, who following the idea of assembling pieces of a jigsaw joins together the various cloths that have been delivered to her. This act brings together different time frames within one work that is exhibited containing within it the indecipherable traces and interpretations of those who have participated in its making.
The South American Series is a project that plays with the artist’s authorship by opening the work up to the dynamic participation of the community. It also ironically alludes to the idea of South America as one single continent.