Carolina Caycedo

Dejar de ser amenaza para convertirnos en promesa / To Stop Being a Threat and to Become a Promise, 2017

Weaving footage from diverse hydrographies such as the Colorado, the Yaqui, the Xingu, the Spree and the Magdalena Rivers, Carolina Caycedo’s To Stop Being a Threat and to Become a Promise (2017) contrasts the ancestral and rural ‘campesino’ lifestyle found throughout the Americas with extractivist approaches to water and land by juxtaposing encountered perspectives and understandings of what a territory is, and how it may be inhabited. Over the course of the video, the ancestral view cast a visual spell on the extractive one, making it wobble, shake, unfold, and eventually transform it into a spiritual vision.