Ana 
González 
Barragán


WORK
Intimacy with a (non) site
Ungrounding
Untangle
Unearthing
production/reproduction
    Sobre(in)visible
    600 kg
    Espejos
    Obsidian Pulse
    Autodefensa
    Inframundo

    PHOTOS

    Cielo
    Fuego
    Teotihuacán
    C0
    Naturaleza
    SD del R
    Rio Colorado
    Vtec
    Llantas
    Estacionamiento 
    Undervisibility
    Faros
    Detalles








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      Obsidian Pulse





      The ritual of human sacrifice was a very widespread practice in Mesoamerica. In the Mexica society, it was embedded in the belief of Tezcatlipoca ––creator of the earth, the sky, and the inferior world, always invisible and simultaneously present at all times. During the period of heat and drought, when the lack of water and excess sun could carry fear among the population, a young man was selected to be sacrificed. The ritual consisted of cutting his heart out with an obsidian spearhead.
      Echoing the ritual impulse, Obsidian Pulse is a video installation comprised of a series of heart-shaped sculptures disposed of in a digital underworld of sorts.


      The relationship between the stone and the three-dimensional digital world aims to open up a space where a contemporary world collides with a mythical ritual. The hearts turned into stone seem also to beat, linger and change their shape. The video aims to shed light upon antique processes and rituals that became strange and unnatural after colonization but that, when created, contain the potentiality of something as magical as changing the weather.

      Made in collaboration with Julieta Gil

      Video x Julieta Gil 
      Sound x Sofia Acosta