INFRA
(terrestrial analogs)

Terremoto (MX)

Museo de Arte de Sonora (MX)
Fundación La Tintotera (CL) 

2 channel video-installation,
diagramme, infrasound receiver
and self made optical devices.
Sonora / Atacama deserts
2024-2025

Direction, camera, sound recording,
optical/sound devices:
Elisa Balmaceda

Editing and camera (Atacama):
Pablo Alarcón Clarke

Post-production:
Emilia Martin
 
Oral storytelling:
Sonia Ramos Chocobar,
Cristina Lizárraga, Rocío Godoy

Sound design:
Valentina Villaroel

Essay: Constanza Barrios,
Elisa Balmaceda

INFRA (TERRESTRIAL ANALOGS) is an experimental film, light and sound installation that explores cosmic communication and Earth’s energetic nature, drawing from the artist’s experience in two deserts classified as terrestrial analogs—Earthly environments that share geological, climatic, or environmental characteristics with other planets or celestial bodies. Using recordings of infrasound and infrared light—frequencies beyond human perception—the project connects salt flats, volcanoes, and atmospheric phenomena with signals from outer space, engaging with more-than-human ecologies on a planetary scale.

INFRA (TERRESTRIAL ANALOGS) navigates between outer space imaginaries and an infra-world shaped by extractivist traces, where water mirrors, antennas, and magmatic flows emerge as interdimensional portals and memories. Through these remnants and energy flows, the work speculates on lost codes and potential pathways for the regeneration of a degraded planet.

Project created as a result of the Simulacros Interplanetarios residency by Terremoto and Fundación La Tintorera artistic residency, with support from Terremoto and FONDART.