Opening: Thursday August 22th 12pm Marcelo Abud is a singular photographer (researcher) from Jujuy. Born in Perico, where he still lives, he focuses on what the academic or artistic world would surely overlook for lack of the tools or open-mindedness required by any scientific or cultural taxonomy. His gaze goes beyond the principles of science and art to the point of becoming inquisitive when presenting his findings. This indirect path allows him to explore unsuspected things, such as encountering people and objects that are not part of standard catalogs, but that often reveal aspects or raise many more questions than are usually studied and learned.
On this occasion he was invited to interact with pieces from the museum's collection, and in addition he decided to invite Lola (Dolores Martínez) to present several of the pieces that she has been making for years with no other purpose than to keep them in the privacy of her home. Bringing these pieces to light, incorporating them into the rooms where archaeological objects are exhibited, poses new questions about the reasons for the selection and classification that researchers usually address. In his admiration for "rarities", Abud opts to show unclassifiable objects, which might become part of future discourses, since the reasons for showing a dinosaur bone today may not seem so different from those that may be valid for showing a chicken bone in the future. The only difference is that perhaps he is ahead of his time, which puts him in a different position. Furthermore, he is also interested in homes, in inner worlds, those spaces of creation, where in this case Lola, without any pretension or artistic interest, challenges the canons of art and forces us to wonder why we naturalize some unusual proposals but are surprised when faced with others that are familiar to us.
