marginal santiago, santiago de chile, © 2000
These places appeared to my European eyes to have qualities extremely similar to what I considered - until then - to be pheriphery: the city limits, the last built-up strip before the countryside... but this time they were in one of the densest and most constructed areas of a huge Latin American city.
Just empty? Discreet fragments between one mass and another of the urban continuum? Or gaps that could have revealed a greater meaning if interpreted carefully? As Paul Virilio writes, we Westerners are accustomed to consider form to be explicit, without noticing the margins, the background details...
