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In June 2020, a Chaco Police drone was shot down in the Barrio Gran Toba, Argentina. The Qom indigenous community was being monitored by the military with the argument of controlling the spread of covid-19.

One hundred years ago, before bombing the Qom people in the Napalpí massacre, the air force posed for a photo that years later would be used as evidence against the State in the trial for crimes against humanity in May 2022. Through the montage images from dissimilar times are arranged close together, accentuating the similarity between operating mechanisms in distant times and with different technologies. Faced with today’s microfascisms and always in the same land, the slingshot is perhaps a gesture of resistance in a decolonial key against systematic violence and the despotism of images.