![Patrick HamiltonProyecto Santiago Derivé, (Santiago Dérive Project), 2006-2008Installation: metal delivery tricycle with light box, electrical materials, duratrans photography, offset print, 30 black and white photographs, lambda print; mural made with marble reproduction posters, offset printPhotographs: 40 x 30 cm (each)Tricycle: 180 x 110 x 90 cmMural: variable dimensionsPhoto ©Werner J. Hannappel / DKM Foundation, Duisburg, Alemania, 2008](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fd9b5f6ccdbb7b20bbe44a951f6e649b521f55334106583e73706fc31b120734/Patrick-Hamilton-1.jpg)
![Patrick HamiltonSantiago Derive (The City Projects), 2006-2008Instalación: Triciclo repartidor de metal, caja de luz, materiales eléctricos, fotografía duratrans, impresión offset, 30 fotos blanco y negro (impresión lambda), mural hecho con afiches que reproducen mármol, impresión offsetFotos: 40 x 30 cm c/uTriciclo: 180 x 110 x 90 cmMural: dimensiones variables (detail)Photo ©Werner J. Hannappel / Fundación DKM, Duisburg, Alemania, 2008](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a61e12100518c070c83d26bf290b867a9d1b337c1471e1769b31fcca7d52da23/Patrick-Hamilton-2.jpg)
![Patrick HamiltonSantiago Derive (The City Projects), 2006-2008Instalación: Triciclo repartidor de metal, caja de luz, materiales eléctricos, fotografía duratrans, impresión offset, 30 fotos blanco y negro (impresión lambda), mural hecho con afiches que reproducen mármol, impresión offsetFotos: 40 x 30 cm c/uTriciclo: 180 x 110 x 90 cmMural: dimensiones variables (detail)Photo ©Werner J. Hannappel / Fundación DKM, Duisburg, Alemania, 2008](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/66c37db37556db7f5c02e61f1f273544facc7674784769352de3cae6902bc730/Patrick-Hamilton-3.jpg)
![Patrick HamiltonSantiago Derive (The City Projects), 2006-2008Instalación: Triciclo repartidor de metal, caja de luz, materiales eléctricos, fotografía duratrans, impresión offset, 30 fotos blanco y negro (impresión lambda), mural hecho con afiches que reproducen mármol, impresión offsetFotos: 40 x 30 cm c/u (detail)Triciclo: 180 x 110 x 90 cmMural: dimensiones variablesPhoto ©Werner J. Hannappel / Fundación DKM, Duisburg, Alemania, 2008](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/63169b9eff60e21270144fe4dfca6e615f8d37581572e370b1a59fe4404bd1e7/Patrick-Hamilton-4.jpg)
PATRICK HAMILTON
(Lovaina, Bélgica, 1974)
Hamilton’s practice questions neoliberalism and the basic concepts of work, history, and spectacle through a peculiarly Chilean logic that began with the economic revolution instigated by Augusto Pinochet and the Chicago Boys. In keeping with that critical idea, the artist’s Santiago Dérive Project (2006-08) consists of three elements: a wall covered by faux marble wallpaper, an archive of over two-hundred black and white photographs of delivery tricycles—a mainstay of Santiago’s informal economy—and a customized delivery tricycle with a built-in lightbox that displays an image of Santiago’s financial district, unironically called Sanhattan. Both an inventory of different typologies and a biting critique of a present-day economic system, Hamilton’s installation explores Santiago through the different “sculpted” transformations these tricycles present.
Fundación Engel © 2020
Fundación Engel © 2020