Who dunnit? and Between black and white (From the series of admissible tension).

For Graciela Sacco, every space is a possibility of discourse and action, whether she exhibits her work in a gallery or directly in the street. Both instances imply a challenge and she appropriates the images she uses from the surrounding context, as if knowing that there is no place in the world that remains alien to her questioning. Precisely with a question that reads "Who was it?", Sacco interpellates passers-by from the façade of the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Salta, launching a demand that intimidates and accuses, and that is installed in a forceful way both in the public sphere and in the private sphere. In addition, he presents his video installation entitled Tensión admissible. Between black and white, which poses a reflection on the limits, the antagonisms and the maximum tension that can be articulated in the moment prior to an explosion. In Graciela Sacco's visual and conceptual repertoire, each element adds its meaning to the general device of the work. The wooden slats that form a sort of palisade, which refers to her series Cuerpo a cuerpo made in the 1990s, are the mechanism for measuring historically situated violence (a demonstration in 1968, in 2001 or in 2011) or the expression of a continuous web of perceptual violence. Black on white, the impacts of paint accompanied by the sound of shrapnel shots cover the entire surface to begin again, white on black, in an eternal game of antagonisms, binomials and dichotomies that require each other as a condition of existence.

Km: 1288

Venue: mac - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Salta

Address: Zuviría, 90,

City: Salta

Argentina

Artist(s):

Graciela Sacco (ARG)

Curatorship:

BIENALSUR, Fernando Farina (ARG)

Type(s):

Exhibition

From 2017/10/07

To 2017/10/29