Your body hurts me like the world hurts god

Alabaster with traces of gilding

Xingzi Gu

“in june 1973 the C.I.A. and the chilean right wing, together with the army were openly conspiring to overthrow the popular unity government. i decided to make an object everyday in support of the chilean revolutionary process. after the coup d’etat and allende’s assassination the objects changed. in the beginning i wanted to prevent the coup, now the objects intend to support armed struggle against the reactionary government. the objects try to kill three birds with one stone: politically, magically and aesthetically. i conceived them as a journal. each day is an object (a chapter), all days make a novel. i didn’t want to make it with many words since there is hardly any time left to live.”

photograph by nick dewolf https://www.flickr.com/photos/dboo/50587667147

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