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Artistas latinoamericanas y sus poĆ©ticas del mundo (The Air Wavered Around Her. Latin American Artists and Their Poetics of the World), the show brings together works by eleven artists from Argentina, Peru, Mexico, Chile, and Brazil, all reflecting on the relationship between body, territory, and landscape. Curated by SofĆa Dourron, the exhibition offers a journey through diverse visual languages and materials that shape a shared question: How do we inhabit the world, and how do we represent it through a feminine lens?
Many of the works āseveral of them being shown in Buenos Aires for the first timeā were created specifically for this exhibition, including pieces by Argentine artists Carla Grunauer and Nacha Canvas. Their work appears alongside that of Gala Berger (ArgentinaāPeru), Seba Calfuqueo (Chile), Annabel Castro (Mexico), Elena Damiani (Peru), MĆ³nica GirĆ³n (Argentina), Mariette Lydis (AustriaāArgentina), Elena Tejada-Herrera (Peru), Ana Vaz (Brazil), and Carla Zaccagnini (ArgentinaāBrazil). Together, they form a poetic map of contemporary Latin American art, expressed through diverse perspectives, memories, and geographies.
The curatorial approach begins with a simple yet profound idea: art as a critical tool for reflecting on the present and imagining possible futures. āEach of these artists opens up a space for reflection āhistorical, environmental, social, and territorialā and asks how art can reshape the way we represent the present as the trace of a possible future,ā explains Dourron.
The exhibitionās title āa suggestive, almost suspended phraseā points to something intangible yet deeply felt: an atmosphere that shifts, that trembles, that signals change. That atmosphere is conveyed through a wide range of materials, from wax and silk to natural pigments, textiles, video, and digital technologies āall creating tension between tradition and innovation.
