Mr. Burns in Chile

A figure of economic power displaced across the territory

Mr. Burns in Chile mobilizes a drawing of the fictional character associated with wealth, greed, and corporate control. The figure appears in Chilean landscapes tied to government, consumption, industry, construction, commerce, and nature.

By repeating the same drawn body in heterogeneous settings, the series creates friction between caricature and reality. Mr. Burns becomes a recognizable emblem through which economic power can be read across places, activities, and collective values.

Mr. Burns in Chile at a fuel station — Circulation and energy.

Mr. Burns in Chile at La Moneda Palace — Institutional power.

Mr. Burns in Chile in a commercial setting — Commerce and consumption.

Mr. Burns in Chile in a rural landscape — Productive territory.

Mr. Burns in Chile by the sea — Landscape and symbolic appropriation.

Drawing associated with Mr. Burns in Chile — Original drawing associated with the series.

TECHNICAL SHEET

Code: MRBR_CAPI_0001
Year: 2010–2015
Type: Open photographic series
Set: 14 photographs and 1 associated original drawing
Status: Digital photographic archive; drawing held in the artist's studio.

CONCEPTUAL READING

Caricature reduces power to a face. By placing that face in concrete locations, the work reverses the operation: fiction becomes a tool for reading economic relations that cross the territory.

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