As part of re-(t)exHile, the Atacama Desert became a site of territorial research into the material afterlife of textile waste. Fieldwork in and around Alto Hospicio, under the guidance of curator Rodolfo Andaur, focused on garments discarded directly onto the land, revealing how fast fashion leaves permanent traces in one of the world’s most fragile ecosystems.
This chapter of the project was accompanied by audiovisual documentation developed in close collaboration with Rafael Rodríguez, whose work behind the camera captured both the scale of the landscape and the intimate presence of textiles embedded in the desert. Together, the research and documentation trace the visible geotraumas formed where global waste economies meet lived territories.