La Otredad de Hijuna is a 360° collage experienced only through a VR headset. Installed at Factoría de Arte Santa Rosa, the work folds the memory of the Franklin neighborhood into an immersive visual field, turning the gallery into a viewing device for a single pair of eyes.

The piece reconstructs the industrial past of the Musalem textile factories and the informal life of the surrounding streets through the fictional voice of “Hijuna”, a boy from the novel by Carlos Sepúlveda Leyton. Inside the headset, archival fragments, textures of machinery, workers’ bodies and domestic interiors are cut, layered and animated into a spherical panorama. The visitor stands still, but the city turns around them—a orbit of memories, rumours and desires.

In the gallery, the physical presence of the work is deliberately minimal: a dark pedestal with the VR headset suspended from the ceiling by a single cable, a marked circle on the floor that fixes the body in place, and a small red point on the wall as the “anchor” of the other world. Between the empty white cube and the saturated virtual space, the installation stages a tension between what can be seen collectively and what is only visible to one person at a time.