Us/Us is an installation erected in a public space as part of BIENALSUR 2017. Two metal frames with vertical metal bars measuring 6x4 meters bear the word Nosotros, criss-crossing the iron bars. The two frames lean on and support each other. The space between the bars is large enough for people to pass through. Basualdo works on the issue of limits based on a reading of the current status quo: when we are placed in an open space, we must stay together so as not to fall. However, there always seems to be some point of dispute, the fight over a term which in fact belongs to us all. Basualdo duplicates this term, wrought in iron horizontally across the bars, as if it were in fact two different things which nonetheless continue to support each other.
After June 2019, the work will find a new home in the emblematic Parque Independencia, by the Wladimir Mikielievich City Museum, offering a fresh opportunity to explore questions about “us” in the context of the urban landscape.
