Beyond the Black Well
A body from Maracaibo crosses three landscapes of another monoculture — a cornfield, an ethanol refinery, a gas station.
The body stops, the hand approaches, an object enters the frame: a colonial book, a 1939 photograph, a banknote stripped of value. Three voices return from years that are not this year — a fisherman, a minister, a driver in a fuel line.
The image strips away the pastoral beauty of the countryside. Oil and corn, the phantom as geography.