Cosmonación

Artists

Valeria Montti Colque

Press release

National Participation - Chile 

Cosmonación is an invitation to reflect upon concepts of nationhood, exile, migration and diaspora. Valeria Montti Colque’s project connects the audience with the contemporary debates around the tension between questions of “Who I am” and “Where I am”, in the intricate process of “territorializing life” (Kusikidi, 2020) within a diverse plethora of cultural identities. The term “Cosmonation” is borrowed from the anthropologist Michel S. Laguerre, who affirms that diasporic communities do not sever relations with their places of origin but remain attached to their ancestral lands through different actions, materials, and spiritual practices. In this way, they inhabit an extended understanding of self within a “multisite nation”, a cosmonation that unifies geographically distant territories.

Commissioner: Florencia Loewenthal
Curator: Andrea Pacheco González