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A selection of finalist works for the Itaú Visual Arts Award, 14th edition, from the cyclical perspective of the days of the week.

Impermanence (2022) by Mariano Ledesma GordilloFundación Itaú Argentina

Time is an elusive concept. The arts have found multiple ways to approach it.

Time is an elusive concept. The arts have found multiple ways to approach it.

On a drywall panel, Mariano Ledesma prints a crumbling landscape using toner powder. He chooses a fragile medium and a volatile substance to allude to the erosion of what was once solid and permanent.

Like in a polyphony where different simultaneous sounds express the same musical idea, Mariana Villafañe gives sound to a time associated with the industrial and mechanical.

Defined rhythms and accelerating processes.

On Hold Work detailFundación Itaú Argentina

In this installation, Natali Perino refers to the systematic production of human beings through the manipulation of frozen embryos. 

On Hold Work detailFundación Itaú Argentina

The narrative of an asynchronous creation, the opening of an abyss between the timelines of biology and our desi

Normal nro. 7Fundación Itaú Argentina

This work also draws from visual elements originated in the field of medicine.

In Carolina Magnin's installation, a photograph was exposed to a device with IV tubing through which black ink flowed.

The photo remained subjected to irregular dripping for months, gradually invading it. The absorbed ink continues to run through the paper's fibers like a merciless obstruction of representation.

Using English-speaking technologies, Karen Palacio performs a 21st-century VJ task. Operating within a timeframe, she presents a visual essay that prompts reflection on humanity, labor, and land.

Finding (2022) by Pablo GuiotFundación Itaú Argentina

Pablo Guiot's “Hallazgo” molds a hyper-realistic connection between old tires and an ancient vessel using clay.

Finding (2022) by Pablo GuiotFundación Itaú Argentina

The paradox of the energetic artifact that steps on and marks the land, transformed into an indifferent object that, in an act of poetic justice, ends up being subjected.

Sprouting mudFundación Itaú Argentina

In this sculpture by Florencia Echevarría, the earth is also a protagonist.

Rhizomes and branches sprout from the clay, in a meticulous technique that becomes a dialectic exploration of the past, present, and future of the Paraná River.

Carving Exile. Surrounding a Place to DieFundación Itaú Argentina

Proyecto Visitantes' installation orbits around the idea of exile as an impulse to seek a safe place.

Carving Exile. Surrounding a Place to DieFundación Itaú Argentina

Like a unique piece, broken into a thousand parts, the artwork carries the paradox of ceramics, as a product of minerals found in nature,

and the dark impact of new extractivism that ruthlessly threatens our potential havens.

Burning horizonFundación Itaú Argentina

Wetlands are essential ecosystems for life. They are sources of water, provide food, harbor rich biodiversity, and store carbon, helping to mitigate the effects of climate change.

Mariana Cvik embroiders a horizon that catches fire, serializing one of the images that highlights the wild crisis with our environment.

Promises of Paradises (2022) by Manuel Isaac VelascoFundación Itaú Argentina

In the same line, Manuel Velasco warns about deforestation, which, while promising real estate developments like lush gardens, turns the native forest into a wasteland.

The artwork captures the shadows cast by native species from Córdoba onto pieces of chinaberry wood, multiplying the question about the lost landscape.

In Silico (2022/2023) by Laura BenechFundación Itaú Argentina

Laura Benech's work proposes a laboratory reflection on the possibilities of designing isolated spaces from the territory that generate a different temporality.

Link to augmented reality: https://laurabenech.net/documentacionitau/


005 - Setúbal and 006 - Setúbal, from PANA project. Small self-supporting black hole (2021) by BREA (Rosario, Santa Fe) Colectivo integrado por: Franco Callegari (Rosario, 1996), Lisandro Carrancio (Rosario, 1995), Lucía Puig (Rosario, 1993) y Priscila Rassol (Rosario, 1985).Fundación Itaú Argentina

Black holes are the cold remnants of ancient stars and have the compulsive ability to abduct. They are so dense that light entering them cannot escape.

P.A.N.A. (Small Self-Contained Black Hole), by the BREA collective, represents this astronomical phenomenon at a small scale. Placed in various natural environments, P.A.N.A. proposes a cosmographic and performative disruption of the landscape.

Credits: Story

Credits
Itaú Award 14th Edition on Google Arts & Culture:
Curators: María Menegazzo and Magdalena Mosquera
Coordination: Celina Marco
Translations: Valentina Bonelli

Fundación Itaú Argentina
José Pagés
Clarice Bentolila
Anabella Ciana
Alejandra Saldías
Nancy Chappe
Mariana Coluccio
Melina Cools
Mariano Pastore

Credits: All media
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