
Little Assembled Paradise, of the series Still Paradise is Ours, 2014.
About the series
Still Paradise is Ours is a series of small assemblages that intend to imitate an idea of beauty, to speak of the pretension of transforming any object and circumstance into a treasurable object, of the indispensable integration of the electronic image in the materialization of the imaginary, of fragility, of the attempt to control...
When the natural paradise is present, neighboring or surrounding, it also becomes fenced and inaccessible and only seems to be realized in its representation.
Faced with a chaotic reality, when everything else has been taken away, it is a matter of insisting on the attitude of rescuing and re-designing, generating imaginary shelters to deal with this state of affairs: when the sense of belonging is divorced from the sense of fullness and shelter.
Thus the fragment is constituted in unity, in the form sought and therefore carefully represented in such a delicate material as in this case porcelain and its associations of meaning.
Remains are mixed with some precious objects in order to generate a small scene, a corner of curiosities, a sort of edited aleph where to find, treasure and control a dreamed place. But in order for this materialization of the dream to be plausible, portable and reliable, we must rely on the ubiquitous screen image where all the abundance that is denied outside is infinitely open.
Works
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.
Exhibitions
Mirarnos a los ojos (volver a). BIM Biennial of the Moving Image. Curated by Gabriela Golder, Andrés Denegri and Cristina Voto. Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2020
Momentum. Rolf Art. Curated by Valeria González. Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2015
Still Paradise is Ours. Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts. Miami, Florida, United States, 2015
The Museum of Imaginary Worlds. MAR (Museum of Contemporary Art of Buenos Aires Province). Curated by Rodrigo Alonso. Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2014