Opening: Wednesday July 19th 3pm
The notion of nature and culture as hierarchical and distinct categories is becoming increasingly improbable. These dichotomies conceived in modernity – similar to man/woman, body/mind – are now being strongly challenged by the social sciences, and their discussion has even entered the political arena.
Conceiving reality from this dichotomous perspective therefore entails a cultural and historical construction that always denotes a specific ideology. In this process of reinventing the way in which we perceive our surroundings, art offers us new avenues for dialogue with the living and even novel approaches to art itself.
Thus, through the works of Karina El Azem, José Franco and Martín La Rosa, the notions of the natural, the artificial, the artistic, and the cultural are re-signified to restore, to some extent, their original mystery and strangeness.
Florencia Battiti
Image: José Franco, Todos somos cebras y leopardos, (2023)
