This presentation at Art Basel OVR explores the emergence in Buenos Aires of a vibrant poetics of gender expression, rooted in local sensibilities, traditions and communities, as it manifests in the works of Fernanda Laguna, Osías Yanov and Juan Tessi.

This room explores the emergence in Buenos Aires of a vibrant poetics of gender expression, rooted in local sensibilities, traditions and communities, as it manifests in the works of Fernanda Laguna, Osías Yanov and Juan Tessi.

In their art practices, traditional approaches and materials are in an active process of trans-formation, just as bodies are.  These artists live and work in a context, Argentina, where the most powerful movement of social change today is tied to gender issues. Ni Una Menos —an influential mass movement born in recent years in response to an epidemic in domestic and gender-related violence— strives to defend the rights of women and trans-gendered people. The title of the room is a reference to their motto, “Nos mueve el deseo” (“We Are Moved by Desire”), which evades self-victimization. The room addresses the focus of the Portals project in terms of the recalibration of social behavior; the various definitions of community and identity; the interactions between past and present, local and global.

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