Historically, Antarctica has functioned as a laboratory for nearly every scientific discipline. More recently, however, the same has begun to happen with various artistic disciplines. From an aesthetic perspective, Antarctica is the ideal place for rethinking and resignifying notions such as time, space, and sound, in their physical, environmental, and spiritual dimensions; and also, why not, for sketching out utopias.
Historically, Antarctica has functioned as a laboratory for nearly every scientific discipline. More recently, however, the same has begun to happen with various artistic disciplines. From an aesthetic perspective, Antarctica is the ideal place for rethinking and resignifying notions such as time, space, and sound, in their physical, environmental, and spiritual dimensions; and also, why not, for sketching out utopias.
In this territory of eternal ice, where the wind proclaims its power and where the atonal music of millions of years possesses an unquestionable beauty and inspiration, the artists — in deep dialogue with nature, through works developed out in the open, both questioning and powerful — function as antennas to communicate what is happening in Antarctica.
Linking art and science, combining creative imagination with scientific rationality, the artist leads us to reflect on and admire this territory that is at once so close and so distant, through intangible traces that connect Antarctica with the wider public. In this way, through their production, the artist manages to enrich and reshape the great austral imaginary.
The show opens on April 20 at 5:00 pm and will be open to the public until May 21, 2016.
Artists: Betiana Bellofatto, Erica Bohm, Guadalupe Pardo, Guido Yannitto, Magdalena Petroni, Mariana Corral, Natacha Voliakovsky, Natalia López / La Reina, Nicolás Trombetta, Pablo La Padula y Pablo Mehanna.
Lina Suspichiatti
Guest Curator