Foreshadowing is an installation art piece with a structure that fills with fog with projection mapping on it through touch designer visuals. There’s a shift in the repetition of images created in TD and amount of fog in it changes the way you view the pictures, adding an extra phantasmagoric layer to a time that isn’t often talked about in Salvadoran society. The photos are images of my parents before and after the “conflicto armado” in El Salvador. This is a personal piece that talks about my family’s life during this time, it involved conversations with my parents and research about the subject to treat a story that is political, censored, and hurtful with respect and care.

It’s a piece from different angles that the images look different from the distance they’re in and the moment you walk into the room based on the amount of fog.

The material of the structure is also based on Salvadoran elements, it’s a small wink and my grandma’s living room furniture always covered in transparent plastic, something I grew up with and something very common in Salvadoran previous generations. It’s important to me wherever I am to tell stories about where I’m from, that aren’t often acknowledged and also work to amplify other stories through art.

Foreshadowing

Piece debuted at Manifest:IO. Alte Münze. March in Berlin, Germany.

Based on the metaphor of Mammatus Clouds, a scientific sign that a thunderstorm is about to happen. I used this to represent the feeling before the civil war in El Salvador happened. It changed my parent’s lives through death, pain and exile, leaving the country in a fragile “post war” piece I grew up in.

This is the story of my family through their own pictures. Before and during the civil war in El Salvador. They describe these moments as a tension that kept building up with a militarized government repressing with inequality and mass arrests, excecutions and then kidnappings and bombs by the resistance. Ending in a 12 year war in my parents youth where they tried to live some type of life.

I was born the year of the peace accords and this war is currently being censored by the Salvadoran government. While prototyping this piece, the only monument for the peace accords was demolished with orders from the current president.

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Citations and Acknowledgements

Flemion, Philip. “Civil War of El Salvador” Encyclopedia Britannica. 22 Sept 2023. Accessed 14 December 2023.

Revista Factum. “Bukele inaugura su dictatura” 3 Dec. 2023. Accessed 3 January 2024.

Quintanilla, Marta Evelyn. Interview. Conducted by Marta Alejandra Torres. 27 December 2023

Torres, Julio Ricardo. Interview. Conducted by Marta Alejandra Torres. 28 December 2023

Visual References: MOB COMPLEX - TILBURG - SEPTEMBER 2023, Experiencing Cinema Rosângela Rennó, Kimchi and Chips Fog installation.

Project advice and Experience expertise by Riccardo Torresi- New Media Artist Ephemeral Tomorrow.

Thank you to Basel Naouri and Harshini Karunaratne for giving the debut to this piece and the opportunity to tell my story in TimeLab’s 2024 Manifest:IO Symposium for New Media and Electronic art. March 24-25th Alte Münze, Berlin, Germany.