Temporal [Storm]

During a dust storm in an August in Córdoba, I imagined a storm sweeping away the established forms. To see a loved one die from agrochemical exposure made me think once again about why we do what we do. The desire, the dormant possibility that the actual way to proceed may only be momentary. To live in a province with only 2% of its native forest, to contemplate infinite single-crop fields from a car window. To see the way in which technology turns fantasies into reality and the emergence of human collectives against titanic structures. New ways of doing. Ancient gods. Internal and external fight. I think of digital tools as a possibility to subvert daily elements and generate other visions. A potential of amplified subjectivity within the limit of the capacity of the machine and mine, to turn the common place into a strange one and denaturalize this present, this opportunity.
The image is based on a 3D scale model of a harvester, generated through photogrammetry (3D digital scan of a physical object according to multiple photographs), later rendered in a digital environment. The result of these operations was printed on a cotton canvas. The image was finished with successive layers of oil and varnish that attempt to make the human gesture and the digital result coexist.
Source: Itaú Cultural Visual Arts Award 2019-2020 Catalogue