Still

This painting by Marcia Schvartz belongs to a stage of her production in which her canvases had left behind the faces of the urban, marginal and marginalized characters that she was able to record during her exile in Barcelona and, upon her return, in the Abasto neighborhood of the city of Buenos Aires. At that time the author was also concluding the series of famous portraits of the protagonists of the Buenos Aires underground culture of the 1980s. "Ainda" was nourished by her travels through Latin America, by her stays on the banks of the river, by her passionate quest to shape that elusive and painful identity of our continent. The history amassed in the slime of the Rio de la Plata, the Amazon and the Paraná imprinted her painting, which swirls the evocation of the two genocides that stained the waters in these latitudes: the extermination of the native peoples by the European conquest and the disappearances perpetrated by State terrorism during the last Argentine dictatorship.