Voluspa Jarpa

The Völklingen Ironworks flooded in red light
Copyright: Weltkulturerbe Völklinger Hütte | Oliver Dietze

Portrait VoluspaJarpa 002 Photo Guyot Mendoza

Portrait VoluspaJarpa 002 Photo Guyot Mendoza
Copyright: Guyot Mendoza

born in 1971 in Rancagua, Chile
lives and works in Santiago, Chile

Work

Syndemic Studies

Voluspa Jarpa b

Voluspa Jarpa b
Copyright: Hans-Georg Merkel | Weltkulturerbe Völklinger Hütte

In 2019, protests against a metro fare increase in Santiago, Chile, developed into a mass socio-political movement that spread across the whole country. Artist Voluspa Jarpa explores this uprising against social inequality and the violent response of the state. Jarpa uses a combination of maps, statistics, and drawings including X-ray images to reveal the extent of state violence. It becomes clear that security forces deliberately caused eye injuries by aiming rubber bullets at protesters' heads. A total of 460 people suffered eye injuries, some of them severe.