Amazing exhibition of the artist Gordon Matta Clark presented these days at the Museum of Fine Arts in Santiago de Chile. His work, based on years of living in marginal areas of New York of the '70s, is a reflection on urban space and the ways in which segregation is expressed in it. The most interesting of all is the position of "explorer" that the artist takes in his quest for raw materials to build his work. According to an explanatory notes at the foot of one of his works: "After these tours brought into its work for those signs that reveal urban socioeconomic problems of a city where living modernization and neglect, starting a photographic archive of walls exposed and peeling or graffiti street language in New York of the seventies".

In this work, one stands out for his profound contribution to symbolic cues that we can see during our ethnographic work in marginal urban areas: this is a film that documents the misery and deprivation that existed under the Brooklyn Bridge in 1971. Moving beyond mere denunciation, the artist proposes to use materials found there recycle it in the manufacture of a low wall, made with layers of newspapers and plaster, which process might eventually be echoed by the poor in those areas.


Just as the city is littered with empty spaces, gaps, leftover spaces, marginal, those spaces also are inhabited. Thousands, millions of people living in those spaces that make no sense for economic logic and that are under capable of prejudice.