Opening: Thursday October 30th, 6 p.m Marcela Cabutti draws on research into geological and historical archives, in which maps and rocks serve as coordinates for a narrative about time and territory. The artist focuses on the work of South African and Argentine geologists who, through fieldwork dating back to the early 20th century, provided evidence of continental drift. Alexander Du Toit was one of the leading proponents of the theory of Pangaea, the supercontinent that, more than 300 million years ago, encompassed all the continental landmasses, and of its subsequent fragmentation into plates such as Gondwana, which included the present-day territories of South America, Africa, India, Australia and Antarctica. This project particularly highlights the contact zones between the Río de la Plata Craton and the Kalahari Craton in Africa, whose geological similarities indicate a common origin. In this investigation, the artist's gaze shifts between the geological and the poetic as she follows the traces of an ancient contact. Inspired by the information recorded in matter, faults and sediments, Cabutti creates a work that oscillates between scientific certainty and sensitive imagination. In Our Wandering Continents the artist proposes a reappraisal of what we usually consider motionless, such as continents and tectonic plates, to restore their status as bodies in slow and constant motion, a process that transcends human perception. By preserving the memory of a past union, rocks become an archive; the map a creative fiction; and the Earth a wandering body.
Image: Marcela Cabutti