RESISTENCIA
Site specific - project for HAWAPI 2019
Resistencia (2019), was created as part of the HAWAPI project and in collaboration with Máxima Acuña Atalaya, a rural weaver and environmental activist who resides in the Cajamarca region of Peru.Since 2011, Acuña has survived successive acts of intimidation and attempts to push her off her land by the Yanacocha mine (owned by the Newmont Mining Corporation and Compañía de Minas Buenaventura). Fiedler realized a poetic intervention in front of the fences that delimit the property, whose access is controlled by Newmont. For eight days, the artist and Daniel (Máxima Acuña’s son) planted approximately 300 pine trees in front of the metal fence so that, once they grow, their leaves will be able to cover the structure which symbolizes the continuation of a colonial project of gold extraction. Fiedler’s work proposes an incisive exploration of the intersections between historical representation, territorial control and technological power as areas that define, in the present day, our collective ways of inhabiting,
feeling, thinking and acting.