Between fiction and recording, the exhibition of works by French and Argentine artists known as Deviations not only raises questions about contemporary parlance, but is also a reflection about the space where discourse and the encounter with the other take place.
Argentina, a country far distant from the epicenter of Western culture, its identity imbued with uncertainty, overshadowed by the majesty of its natural landscapes, is presented as overflowing with poetry and stories that transcend geography, even though each work here refers to an aspect of a common narrative.
Although nature is itself the protagonist, there are varied approaches: the strangeness prompted by disproportion, but which also provokes devastation thanks to an uncontrollable nuclear explosion. As an alternative, there is artificial construction, another image which asks us what it is that we perceive, desire and appreciate. A confusion which slides towards a future of machine and technology that beckons with promises of wellbeing, freedom and creation, which we quite wisely mistrust.
Imagination is the last chapter in which artists use irony, parody and fantasy to offer us other realities, some of which refer in critical terms to situations of daily violence, disturbing hints of latent forces which we know are permanently attempting to draw us in despite our best efforts to ignore them.
This project is sponsored by the Embassy of France and the Institut français d'Argentine.
