Opening: Tuesday August 31th 6pm
Is it conceivable to envision an alternative subjectivity in a world that promotes homogenous, anonymous beings? How far is it to a point from which there is no reference? Can a machine that inhabits an artificial and abstract universe be humanised?
Fragile Bodies, Infinite Universes presents a journey between the most distant universes and the closest dimensions, between the abstractions of instruments and the depths of the body, the senses, and the psyche. The artists use various approaches and poetic technologies to develop devices that bring them closer to open-ended problems. This comprises a series of attempts, tests, and experiments to try to understand, to unveil some sort of knowledge, and to respond to questions that may be answered both from an artistic and a scientific perspective. All these undertakings employ diverse methodologies while sharing a similar level of precision and/or certainty within their own objective and subjective fields of study.
The decision to use an exhibition venue at the Universidad Nacional de los Comechingones in the province of San Luis, Argentina, was not accidental. As an emerging university still under development, it provides an ideal setting to confront the heterodox practices of art with the rigorous and canonical methods of science. It is an environment that highlights the transdisciplinary and peripheral nature of the tools necessary to comprehend and tackle the challenges of complexity, which we are rapidly advancing towards – fragile and propelled with the inertia of a celestial body.
Sebastián Tedesco
Image: Jean Christophe Sakdavong y Maria Zegna, Le minotaure del metaverso
