Opening: Thursday, August 14th, 5 p.m Lola Mora is one of the most prominent figures in Argentine art. Like many women artists, she entered history overshadowed more by the peculiarities of her biography than by recognition of her work. She was a woman, a sculptor, and worked on a large scale. Her personal relationships defied social conventions, and her temperament was deemed eccentric in a male-dominated world. Only recently has her artistic and aesthetic significance begun to be fully acknowledged, and today Lola Mora holds a central place in early 20th-century sculpture—a period when the medium was closely linked to the monument as a means of inscribing the values and narratives of a nation in formation. This project takes the sculpture-monument as a significant intersection in the work of Lola Mora: between national history and allegory, between realist heroism and sensual naturalism. Works such as Las Nereidas (The Nereids) in Buenos Aires, the bas-reliefs in the Casa Histórica de Tucumán (Historic House of Tucumán), Los Leones (The Lions) in Jujuy, and the sculptural groups in the Monument to the Flag in Rosario demonstrate her widespread presence across the national territory. The artists Sara Bonomi, Adriana Bustos, Tamara Goldenberg, and Sol Quirincich approach a reinterpretation of her legacy from different perspectives and cities. Through displaced materials, archives, altered scales, minimal gestures, and speculative fictions, they interrogate the traces of Lola Mora, her expanded figure, and the place she still holds in the narratives of art and nation.
Image: Sol Quirinch, Escultora, 2024