Luminous Cartography Exercises

Luminous Cartography Exercises explores the interaction of science and nature in Alto Patache, using solar-powered lasers to blend elements like fog and ruins with scientific instruments, revealing the story of water in an arid landscape.

Luminous Cartography Exercises

This series of images emerges from experiments with laser light at the CDA of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, located in Alto Patache. Capturing a landscape where the scientific intertwines with the natural, elements such as weather stations, fog collectors, and ruins of structures devastated by mudflows combine with light to visually narrate the story of water in this arid environment. The images are generated by a device that captures solar light during the day using solar panels and batteries, and projects it at night using a laser designed by the artist Mauricio Lacrampette. This work is part of the research by the KMNCHK _Scan Lab collective, focused on documenting the interaction between fog and the landscape.

The fog, subtly spreading at the scientific station, emerges as a spectral presence, inviting reflection on the dynamics between the human and the non-human, the natural and the artificial. It reveals a landscape that is dynamic, ever-changing, and reacts to rhythms that we are only beginning to understand.