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Still Paradise is Ours

 

Little Assembled Paradise, from the series Still Paradise is Ours, 2014.

About the series

Still Paradise is Ours shows a small paradise assembled with stones, carefully selected small pieces of debris, plants in delicate pots and minimum video screens with the image of blue crystalline water, as it should be..., and also a minimum fan provides the necessary breeze.

When the natural paradise is present, neighboring or surrounding, it also becomes fenced and inaccessible and only seems to be realized in its representation.

Frente a una realidad caótica, cuando todo lo demás ha sido arrebatado, se trata de insistir en la actitud de rescatar y re-diseñar, generar refugios imaginarios para lidiar con ese estado de situación: cuando el sentido de pertenencia está divorciado de la sensación de plenitud y albergue.

Así el fragmento se constituye en unidad, en la forma buscada y por eso representada cuidadosamente en un material tan delicado como la porcelana y sus asociaciones de sentido.

Se mezclan restos con algunos objetos preciosos con el fin de generar una pequeña escena, un rincón de curiosidades, una especie de aleph editado donde encontrar, atesorar y controlar un lugar soñado. Pero, para que esta materialización del sueño sea verosímil, portátil y confiable, hay que recurrir a la imagen ubicua de pantalla, en la que se abre infinita toda la abundancia afuera negada.

Cascade.

Works

Little Assembled Paradise

Video installation | Two video channels. 12" LCD screens, plants, stones, Limoges porcelain, and fan. HD video. Variable dimensions. 2014

Video stills.

Still Paradise is Ours I

Installation | Single video channel. 9" LCD screen, stones, plants, wooden planks, and fan. HD video. Variable dimensions. 2015

Detail.

Still Paradise is Ours (Hurricane)

Installation | Single video channel. 9" LCD screen, stones, plants, Limoges porcelain, and fan. HD video. Variable dimensions. 2015

Still Paradise is Ours (Typhoon)

Installation | Single video channel. 9" LCD screen, stones, cables, and Limoges porcelain. HD video. Variable dimensions. 2014

The Sound of the Wind II (Redesigning Catastrophe)

Video installation | Three channels. 12" LCD screens, three aluminum tripods. HD video. Variable dimensions. 2015

At the top of the Batea Mahuida volcano the wind blows strong, vertiginous and constant. The simple operation of silencing it suspends us in the stillness of a desert landscape and a defined edge. Hiding the sound cancels all evidence with an opacity that would not be greater in the case of blinding the image.

Treasures II (Redesigning Catastrophe)

Installation | Single video channel. 9" LCD screen and Limoges porcelain pieces. HD video. 27 x 25 x 25 cm. 2015

Video still.

Cascade

Installation | Single video channel. 10" LCD screen, cables, and Limoges porcelain. HD video. Variable dimensions. 2014

Process

Exhibitions

Igual el paraíso es nuestro. Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts. Miami, Estados Unidos, 2015

Mirarnos a los ojos (volver a). Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento. Curatorship: Gabriela Golder, Andrés Denegri y Cristina Voto. Buenos Aires, 2020

El Museo de los Mundos Imaginarios. MAR (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Curatorship: Rodrigo Alonso. Mar del Plata, 2014

Momentum
Rolf Art, Buenos Aires, 2015.