Olvido de arena

About this book

" Olivo de Arena" revolves round an escape and the digging up of a chest: in the process, the chest is filled with sand and has a single word inscribed "Olvido" (Oblivion). Mario Opazo had the idea for this film after having been at a carnival where the children, dressed up as angels, were carrying on their shoulders, caskets which resembled coffins. During the procession they filed slowly down the streets dressed in black, their faces covered in flour, with an air of obedience, accompanied by the weeping of their mothers. Mario Opazo is a Chilean visual artist and audiovisual producer who lives in Colombia. He teaches at the National University of Colombia and has participated in more than a hundred worldwide exhibitions since 1991. His work received the first prize of the XXXVI Salon Nacional de Artistas in 1999 and was nominated for the Guggenheim scholarship by the Brazilian conceptual artist, Paulo Bruscky, in 1999. He represented Colombia in the 52nd Biennale in Venice in 2007 with his project "Fugitive Territory". He won the first prize for Latin American Art MOLAA (United States)