From Dystopia to the Uncertain
Records of destruction, desolation, and abuse of our environment as the other side of the idea of indefinite progress.
Some works emphasize the definitive crisis of the ideal of unlimited progress.
Lo que habita en las sombras (What lives in the shadows) (2020) by Cecilia CasenaveFundación Itaú Argentina
Cecilia Casenave investigates night scenes, revealing what lives in the shadows.
Burnt logs, ash suggesting remnants of a fire.
This is what we are capable of.
Tierra sobre fuego (Land on fire) (2020) by Gastón AndreattaFundación Itaú Argentina
In Gastón Andreatta's Land over Fire, charred cars reveal the accumulation of polluting residues.
A cycle of programmed obsolescence from which we seem unable to get out.
Meridiano 4267 (Meridian 4267) (2019) by Lucas BragagniniFundación Itaú Argentina
There is a certain ambiguity in Lucas Bragagnini's photographs.
From ancient remains of fortresses, we move to rubble of monumental size.
From the romanticized landscape to the loss of innocence.
If realism worked as a strategy for various artistic movements, the Environmental Realism appears today as a new current where the works account for the crudest aspects of our passage through the planet.
Inhalaciones territoriales (territorial inhales) (2020) by Ana Laura CanteraFundación Itaú Argentina
In Territorial Inhalations by Ana Laura Cantera, microparticles of polluting gases that enter our bodies are filtered through a backpack with extractors and mycelium filters.
A device showing, in a substantive way, the worrying state of pollution of our atmosphere. Access link to artwork
In The Past is Unpredictable, Leonardo Gracés compiles a series of catastrophes that occurred in different times and places. An archive of tragedies, a fiction not too far from the future that is predicted.
The HZ Collective, composed of Giovanni Zapata and Andrés García, features records of glaciers whose layers gradually detach. The era of the anthropocene fatally installed, the daily ecocide. The Anthropocene era fatally established, the daily ecocide.
Luis Saray deconstructs and redefines the narrative of national and international blockbuster films, combining them with fragments of experimental images and sounds. Narratives to imagine an end that feels near.
Or will we be able to readapt and coexist with what we considered our possession?
La incomodidad de lo que nos rodea 7, (The awkwardness of what surrounds us 7) La incomodidad de lo que nos rodea 7, (The awkwardness of what surrounds us 7) (2021) by Pablo LogiovineOriginal Source: https://www.laincomodidad.com/
Pablo Logiovine's installation is made up of calendar sheets from a prestigious international museum partially eaten by snails, accompanied by a video that records the process.
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Gestures that show how hierarchies can be diluted as we move towards new levels of understanding with what surrounds us.
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Some works delve into the posthuman as a displacement from the center. Such is the case of Scanner's Delight, a video by Mateo Amaral that starts from multiverse simulations: spaces where artificial intelligence, fungi and plants are hybridized.
Pintura 244 (Painting 244) (2020) by Santiago PoggioFundación Itaú Argentina
Santiago Poggio's painting follows the same line: from man as the measure of all things, from Planet Earth as the center of the universe
to the continuity between human, animal and machine.
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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