Project open to the general public: Thursday, October 2nd, and Friday, October 3rd, from 2:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Opening: Thursday, October 2nd, at 8:00 p.m.
The curatorial project Creating an Animal approaches the heritage collection of the School of Arts of the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán as an indivisible body, rather than considering the works individually. The collection is thus set in motion through an action coordinated by the curators and implemented by students, artists, curators, graduates, professors and researchers.
We spent a year revitalising it, just to watch it awaken. We questioned it, introduced ourselves, and revealed how production and thought are interwoven in contemporary art today. We offered to train and update it. The time has come to awaken the animal, watch it stretch in its enclosure, and encourage it to come out.
In conversations with local fauna experts, we observed identity features similar to those of an animal that knows its territory and moves with a body made up of works and people, and active, unresolved tensions. It is a collective, choreographed body that emerges and gathers, among interstices, links and alliances that serve as clues for future incorporations.
The curatorial premise is to create conditions that enhance the collection through training in connection with a wider community. By unveiling its qualities, it is expected to show us how to help it grow further through an integrating pedagogical experience.
Image: Agustín Indri