THE PLOT: MIRACLE AND MIRAGE

Abstract

Santiago and Chicago are two distant cities but connected by their housing and land market policies. These relationships were at the center of the exhibition The Plot: Miracle and Mirage curated by Alejandra Celedón, Nicolás Stutzin and Javier Correa for the 2019 edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial "... and other such stories ...". The curatorial operation was twofold: the first maneuver was to look at the past through archival work focused on statements about the city made by the Chicago Boys and their followers. The second was to examine and to audiovisual record the current city looking for symptoms of an implicit urban model, barely pronounced. Although the city of the film is Santiago present, the images are the effects of past politics. The city and its evidence —present and past— became traces of a retroactive manifesto on Santiago.