Opening : Thursday July 10th, 6 p.m.
In the beginning, there was clay, stone, and fibre—the foundational materials of an artistic practice that emerged before the Western canon. This exhibition brings together two institutional collections which, despite their temporal differences, reveal both tensions and continuities in the construction of a local art history.
When the Museum of Fine Arts in Salta was founded, its earliest acquisitions—colonial artworks and loans from national museums—disregarded the region’s long-standing artistic traditions. Today, that foundational omission is revisited through the work of contemporary artists who draw on ancestral materials and languages.
The curatorial approach brings generations of Salta-based artists into dialogue, tracing not only a timeline but also the absences that shape it. Thus, contemporary art not only connects with the present—it also offers a way to rewrite memory through its fractures.
Imagen: Julieta Barderi. Una expedición animista en un mundo inactivo, 2023.