El Segundo Viaje

Christopher Columbus made two voyages before reaching the island of Puerto Rico in 1493. In order to develop this project, artist Irene de Andrés had to travel twice to the island as well. There were two days of Puerto Rican independence before it became US territory in 1898, and, finally, two are the videos that make up this piece: El Segundo Viaje (2015-2017)

The island of Puerto Rico, one of the last Spanish colonies, is located between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. El Segundo Viaje takes this territory as pretext and context to analyze the neo-colonial relations that have been established in the island through exploitative tourism. Through a collage of images, the project explores the region’s recent changes and investigates the transformations of its forms of representation.