Jigsaw Puzzles
This exhibition is conceptually inspired by a new version of Regina Silveira’s Latin American Puzzle. It brings together images from different social, cultural, and political horizons of the region into an open and largely associative picture, in which each piece is individually identified and, at the same time, related to the others in order to give each viewer a possible reading of history in an attempt to understand the reality of Latin America.
The selection of works featured in Jigsaw Puzzles reveals the complexity of the construction of any kind of narrative, considering the variety of converging realities. It is worth bearing in mind that the territory of the symbolic is shifting, elusive, and unstable. Any certainty in this regard is open to question as changes occur in the socio-cultural and temporal parameters that guide us through them. However, this weakness of the symbolic, or rather of images, is also its strength. Hence, it is worth making the effort to think with images and to creatively broaden the horizons of meaning.
With this premise as a starting point and bearing in mind the impossibility of a single narrative, let us explore uncertainties from this present and in the plural to imagine critical positions that help us think about decentralisations, exchanges, appropriations and re-appropriations in a multiple, diverse, reciprocal, and global sense.
Diana B. Wechsler
Artist(s):
Regina Silveira (BRA)
Adriana Bustos (ARG)
Anna Bella Geiger (BRA)
Nicolás Robbio (ARG)
Horacio Zabala (ARG)
Glenda León (CUB)
Harun Farocki (DEU-CZE)
Élodie Pong (USA-CHE)
Agustina Woodgate (ARG)
Daniel Canogar (ESP)
Fernando Bryce (PER)
Andrea Alkalay (ARG)
Filippo Berta (ITA)
Paula Castro (ARG)
Luis Hernández Mellizo (COL)
Erin Johnson (USA)
Ryts Monet (AUT-ITA)
Juan Pablo Renzi (ARG)
María Gimeno (ESP)
Sergio Vega (ARG)
Curatorship:
Diana B. Wechsler (ARG)
Benedetta Casini (ITA)
Real Fictions
Real Fictions is a curatorial project conceived as an invitation to revisit the ways in which information is produced and circulated and how it contributes to the construction of meaning. We are aware that all narratives involve montage gestures, the editing of images, ideas, testimonies, memories, texts, etc. Therefore, let us dispel any fantasy of possible “neutrality” when it comes to establishing a narrative of any sort, since this is always done from a situated position. Designed with images, this project sets out to put such premises to the test.
Alongside Harun Farocki, let us distrust images and be clear about the need to identify the points of view, the framing, the gestures, in short, all those elements involved in their construction. It is necessary to review their temporal markers, their persistence, and the poetics that silently haunt them.
We currently inhabit what Joan Fontcuberta refers to as “the fury of images”. Therefore, exhibitions become essential in the age of googling, as they provide a space to look at a selection and think with and beyond it.
Conceived on the basis of symbolic productions that at different junctures questioned the status of “truth”, “reality” or “verisimilitude” of images, events or situations, this project intends to contribute to a broader range of critical reflection.
Diana B. Wechsler
Artist(s):
Fabio Kacero (ARG)
Adriana Bustos (ARG)
Marie Orensanz (ARG-FRA)
Roberto Jacoby (ARG)
Ali Kazma (TUR)
Liliana Porter (ARG)
Jordi Colomer (ESP)
Etcétera (ARG-CHL)
Voluspa Jarpa (CHL)
Marta Minujin (ARG)
Daniela Ortiz (PER)
Declinación Magnética (ESP)
Harun Farocki (DEU-CZE)
Gabriel Garcilazo (MEX)
C. Brambilla (ARG)
Daniel Canogar (ESP)
Antoni Muntadas (ESP)
José Luis Landet (ARG)
Dora García (ESP)
Eduardo Costa (ARG)
Joan Fontcuberta (ESP)
Raúl Escari (ARG)
Cristian Segura (ARG)
Tucumán Arde (ARG)
Santiago Villanueva (ARG)
Sociedad de amigos y benefactores de las artes de Cañada Rosquín (ARG)
Daniela Comani (ITA)
Curatorship:
Diana B. Wechsler (ARG)
Benedetta Casini (ITA)
From 2023/07/30
To 2023/10/29