Every space is for Graciela Sacco the possibility of discourse and action whether her work is exhibited in a gallery or on the street. Both situations entail a challenge and appropriate the images she uses from the surrounding context, as though she knew that no place in the world could be indifferent to her question. It is precisely through the question "Who dunnit? that Sacco challenges the passers-by from the façade of the Museo de Arte Con temporáneo of Salta with an intimidating and accusing interrogation that imposes itself conclusively in the public and the private sphere. She also presents her video installation entitled Admissible Tension. Between White and Black, which proposes a reflection on the limits, antagonisms and the maximum tension that can be articulated at the moment prior to an outburst In Graciela Sacco's visual and conceptual repertoire, each element adds its own meaning to the general mechanism of the piece. The wooden planks that make up a sort of fence alluding to her series Body to Body from the 1990s are the mechanism that gauge violence throughout history (demonstrations in 1968, 2001 and 2011), or the expression of a continuum of perceptual violence, Black on white, the strokes of paint accompanied by the bear of machine gun shots gradually cover the whole surface only to start again white on black in an eternal game of antagonisms, binomials and dichotomies that need each other in order to exist.
Who dunnit? and between black and white (from the series Admissible tension)
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)
Curatorial axes:
BIENALSUR Curatorial Projects
Type(s):
Exhibition
From 2017/10/06
To 2017/10/29