south utopia

by Sonia Cortez

The spirit of the times 

Minncelli Museum 2014

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Patricia Viel from this land of myths and legends bears witness to this possible south in the metaphor of remaining inside and surviving outside.  Travel from this present to a pioneering past; it questions itself and questions us: What is the status of the past in relation to this present? That past was a dream? was it a myth? was it a utopia? A dramatic form, is it in any case an intermittent form, exceptional? Patagonia, a fantasy of the disappearance of all culture? of all landscape? of history itself in lack of differentiation?  "Spirit of the times" gives us a dimension of what is possible. As a utopia to walk..."She is on the horizon. I take two steps closer, she moves two more steps away. I walk ten steps and the horizon runs ten steps further. As much as I walk, I will never reach her. What is utopia for? It is for that: to walk."   Utopia (by Eduardo Galeano)