The South of Things is a free exploration of everyday practices, uses and customs of language, imaginaries, roles, and assumed historical places that question the idea of culture, alongside intersubjective, relational, and material connections. This forms the world system of which we are a part and from which a series of symbolic articulations of meaning and power unfold.

The South of Things arises as a reference to that part which sustains the entirety of a body.

The work presents a tea table for four people, where all elements lack their lower part and thus collapse. The suspension suggests a paused fall, inviting the viewer to traverse it and have a different encounter with the space-time in front of the uncertainty of the scene.

The choice of tea, as a daily practice, refers to a particular custom brought from Europe and initially appropriated by the upper social classes in our region. It is one of many that unfolded from the beginnings of forming an independent and sovereign territory, and that, in their adherence, provided a sense of belonging to the hegemonic historical and cultural line.

Over time, the idea of appropriation and belonging reinforced a model of cultural dependency, where the South provides resources to the North in exchange for history.