Mientras no estaba, el mar continuó su ritmo, 2025

Single-channel video · 16 minutes

This work draws from tidal gauge data recorded in Valparaíso, Chile between October 1989 and December 2003, spanning the fourteen years the artist lived in the United States. Each white line rendered against a deep blue field represents a tidal reading, accumulating over the sixteen minute duration of the video until the frame becomes dense with layered movement, a visual record of the sea's uninterrupted rhythm.

The piece reflects on the nature of attachment and distance. When we leave the places and people we love, life there continues in full, unhurried, indifferent to our absence, rich with its own unfolding. The tidal data, precise and objective in its origin, becomes here a meditation on that continuity: a reminder that the places we carry within us were never static, that they kept living as we did, on parallel and equally full trajectories.

The rising sea level visible across the duration of the video adds a quiet but undeniable dimension, time passed, things changed, and the world moved forward for everyone.