Sunday

In the Balvanera church in the city of Buenos Aires, the churchgoers light hundreds of candles daily to pray to Saint Expeditus, the patron saint of urgent causes. Luciana Pia Faccini regularly visits the sanctuary and collects the wax remnants.

In the Balvanera church in the city of Buenos Aires, the churchgoers light hundreds of candles daily to pray to Saint Expeditus, the patron saint of urgent causes. Luciana Pia Faccini regularly visits the sanctuary and collects the wax remnants.

She subjects these pieces to the lost-wax casting technique to create bronze replicas.

From this encounter between popular devotion and one of the most traditional and ancient techniques in visual arts emerges this delayed and untamed object.

In the realm of the mythical dimension, hair holds a place as an organic and filamentous garment that unlocks, as a symbolic key, the question of human transcendence.

Rocío Fernández's object aestheticizes the synecdoche while exploring possible futures.

Altarpieces are medieval works of art that, placed behind an altar, depict biblical scenes.

Favio Gutierrez bases on this historical form to refer to a more recent past. 

On this gilded leaf icon, he recalls the landscapes of his childhood, repeatedly traversed by a mythical dirigible.

The aesthetics of early video games reformatting the archives of memory.

The worship of ancestors is linked to solar worship to ensure their protection and a symbol of salvation.

Sol Diví's installation represents the owl from the Chaco-Santiago culture.

alongside a mound of local clay, which serves as a small funerary mound.

Syncretizing contemporary language with the aboriginal iconography of our territory, the artwork stages a minimalist and silent commemoration.

Florencia Reisz uses sunlight as a means to reinvent the traditional technique of engraving.

What is revealed are various fragments of irregularly shaped glass, which ultimately form a translucent and sharp geometry.

The Sun on the horizon was already defined by the Egyptians as "brightness or splendor."

In this watery and pink panorama, Victoria Poirier narrates that scene, unfolded into eight moments of the day.

A sequence that recounts with impressionistic memory the hours of light on the edge of the landscape. Art work details.

Also animated by the water's heartbeat, Candela Pietropaolo's polyptych of oil paintings surveys the houses built upstream, on the banks of the Paraná River, during times of drought.

"Season of Docks to Nowhere" seems to depict a fluid yet threatened relationship.

Paulin González Villán's work is a hybrid weaving from which the artist attempts to reconstruct a textile that no longer exists.

Just as planets orbit the sun, 40 images generated by artificial intelligence surround a textile patch.

In turn, the work is framed by a border used in transmutation rituals in the sacred valleys of Calca, Peru.

Human and technological will united in the effort to recover a memory before it fades away.