Opening: Saturday October 7th 4pm
The South American artifacts – both pre-Hispanic and colonial – present in the collection of the Enrique Udaondo Museum Complex in Luján reveal an almost interminable list of materials and techniques that embody an extremely original and unique way of presenting themselves and existing in the world. Countless materials and substances give life to the works created by men and women who traversed Andean lands. However, reflections on American materiality in relation to its kaleidoscopic projection and presence in contemporary art go beyond these taxonomies. They also entail rethinking their changes and continuities in terms of significance and agency, in order to identify networks of meaning that, in a diachronic and transversal way, resonate in the contemporary use of these same materials.
This exhibition aims to establish connections between the cultural practices historically associated with these materials and those that currently resonate with contemporary production; namely, the systems of exploitation and production of raw materials, ecological considerations within the Anthropocene context, departures from traditional material uses in favor of industrial production, as well as explorations in sound, audiovisual systems, and performative practices as a means of expressing aesthetic experiences, the intersections of the global and the local, and the influence of computer networks, among other themes.
