Miguel Harte (Buenos Aires, 1961), one of the most prominent Argentine sculptors of his generation, presents a project in the central space of the Octagon at Centro Cultural Borges. The Strangled Garden (Anatomy of an Emergency) proposes a scene of tension between organisms, artificial structures, and matter in transformation.
A machinic tree appears as an altered body, an arboreal form constructed from natural fragments, artificial replicas, and exposed structural elements. It is not presented as a stable image of nature, but rather as an organic-mechanical hybrid, a body subjected to forces that exceed it. The work creates a friction between the vegetal and the artificial. This machinic tree coexists with a group of emerging beings—shimmering and pearlescent—that seem to belong to another stage of evolution, forms that are both living and synthetic.
True to his distinctive artistic language, developed over four decades of practice, Harte draws on a fantastical and visceral atmosphere, almost science-fictional in character, to invite reflection on the current state of the “natural.”
The exhibition can be visited at Centro Cultural Borges, Viamonte 525, Buenos Aires. Admission is free.