Time in its Qualities
The question of origin naturally derives into other of the issues that the works approach: time.
Una teoría del color (A color theory) (2019) by Germán LombardiFundación Itaú Argentina
Some of the works address the various qualities of time, the need to materialize it, the will to investigate it, the urgency to show all its aspects.
In Germán Lombardi's video installation, two screens dialogue avoiding the conventional sense of time: its linearity.
A collage that deconstructs and relates a sequence of images that record the transit from dusk to dawn.
Estudio para catapulta (Study for catapult) (2019) by Ivana SalfityFundación Itaú Argentina
The concept of Ivana Salfity's photographs revolves around the idea of force and movement.
With resource simplicity, formal minimalism and strict black and white, she unfolds the imminent, the moment prior to the irreversible.
In Compression of the Day to 5 Minutes, by Marcos Calvari, a microphone takes the ambient sound of a place.
This sound is recorded and played back over the speaker in a 5-minute loop that overlays each new sound with its predecessor. A sound synthesis through technologies, an accumulation of sounds put into value before their complete disappearance.
A stick held by a string is lifted from the ground, to fall after a few seconds, hitting its body against the ground. This action is repeated over and over again, into infinity.
In a reflection on the cyclical and with extreme formal simplicity, Juan Sorrentino's work confronts us with the irremediable fatality of the circuit.
In Omar Jury's work, an electric motor turns a magnet behind a mirror in such a way that a nail draws a perfect circle on the latter.
An artifact that forces the coexistence of two materialities through time, one that acts constantly, the other that resists. A theater of connections and the recurrent.
Sin título, de la serie “Se trataba de un método de matar sin que muriera nadie”, (Untitled, from the series “It was a killing method so that nobody would die) (2018) by Mariana JuárezFundación Itaú Argentina
Mariana Juárez displays, through techniques linked to photography, a will to capture the finite. In this procedure, she uses organic and natural elements exposed to direct sunlight for long periods of time.
A delve into the inexorable that strives to detain the evanescent.
El tiempo hace lo suyo (Time does its thing) El tiempo hace lo suyo (Time does its thing) (2020) by Belén EspinosaFundación Itaú Argentina
Fugitive time begets nostalgia: that feeling of longing combined with affection that arises when we think about the past. It is the photographic archive of family members and strangers that Belén Espinosa takes as base resource for her work.
On that surface of paper he embroiders with cotton thread, revealing in each stitch the web of moments that we are. We are time.
Fundación Itaú Argentina
José Pagés
Clarice Bentolila
Anabella Ciana
Alejandra Saldías
Nancy Chappe
María Florencia Trotta
Mariana Coluccio
Mariano Pastore
María Menegazzo and Magdalena Mosquera.
Text credits, Curatorship and Coordination 12th Itaú Visual Arts Award.
Celina Marco
Coordination Google Arts & Culture
Valentina Bonelli
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