Opening: Friday, August 29th, 2.30 p.m. Like an act of eternal return to nature, the marvellous objects treasured by culture always return to the present. In this case, housed within a 19th-century mansion in the heart of Buenos Aires—which can also be read as a grand cabinet of artistic, historical, and natural curiosities, structured around its Moorish botanical garden. In its rooms, the collection of fascinating objects connects with the singular aesthetics of nature through the insectivorous designs and scientifically inspired herbaria of Paula Darriba, which engage in dialogue with the exterior undergrowth of the botanical garden, intervened by the photographic project on American birds by Valeria Cannata, in harmony with the soundscape of marine mammals from southern Patagonia by Alberto Tadiello. The study of nature transcends simple cataloguing and objective observation; it is also a sensual and powerful dialogue with otherness through the design of unsuspected aesthetic bonds. Thus, contemporary art reveals the capacity to intuit without the tyranny of verisimilitude or evidence.
Image: Alberto Tadiello, Crown shyness