Aequador

"Interested in the hidden corners of exoticism and a reinterpretation of history as an aesthetic challenge, Colombian resident in France, Laura Huertas Millán (Bogotá, 1983), presents in Aequador—in her own words—'a parallel present modified by virtual reality, an oneiric allegory, an uchronic dystopia.' With foundations on science fiction—uchronia as a source for an alternative history can actually be seen as a subgenre—, Aequador establishes parallelisms—in a complex and deliberately fragmented way—between the (virtual) relics and ruins of an ideal 3-D architecture embedded somewhere in the middle of the Colombian Amazonas and the everyday life of people inhabiting that area. This equatorial semi-paradise, this dystopia evoking the excesses of a progressive and modernist dream, takes us back to a time ('a history without a chronology') when foreigners established settlements in Latin America (a 'non-place') based on conquering ideologies and impulses.

Laura Huertas Millán continues delving into themes already present in her earlier work: nature as a place where the otherness arises, the issue of what is foreign and strange, and the hybridization of myths from diverse origins. Mixing different documentary registers with science fiction and fantasy while appropriating stock footage, Huertas Millán manages her craft from an in- between position to visual arts and cinema."

–Maximiliano Cruz, Ficunam catalogue, 2013