Salar de Surire is a nature reserve on the Chilean tableland, situated at an altitude of 4300 metres above sea level, on the frontier with Bolivia. Inside the reserve, the last survivors of the Aymara culture, a group mostly made up elderly people, live alongside the flamingos, vicunas and llamas. However, the silence of the place is interrupted by the continuous passage of trucks and diggers. Surire succeeds in combining observation of the natural world with the structure of an elegant formal composition in order to describe a landscape where natural beauty coexists with human absurdity.