The project originates from the accidental discovery of a fragment of a negative film, in the San Salvador countryside during the rescue operations for the 2001 earthquake. The image, damaged and scratched on the surface, shows a group of soldiers but it’s not possible to understand if it depicts a military exercise or a moment of the civil war that shocked the country from 1980 to 1992.
From this ambiguity, a sound and video installation are born, where boundaries between real and plausible, illusory and hallucinatory gradually break apart. 
The found negative, printed on vinyl paper in different colors, has been animated into a video in which the image dissolves and reassembles constantly in a perceptual vortex for the eye. In the middle of a room, a cable stretched between the ceiling and the floor is the support to a flag. Suspended and not planted on the ground, it doesn’t have any reference to states, territories or borders. Its fabric is the result of a manual dyeing process in the colors of the vinyl papers on which the found negative has been printed, and is moved by the air jet of some fans, while a sound composition diffused in the space musically recreates the sound of the fans, amplifying it with intensity to the point of confusing it in the sound of a storm wind. This misleading and evocative sound links the two exhibition rooms: one hosts the video, the other one the installation). 
Everything mixes indistinctly, as saliva mixes with blood to wash it away.