Opening: Thursday, December 4th, 7p.m Camilo Guinot's large-scale sculptural installation located in the building is based on an exploration of the connection between human production and nature. Made with branches collected from pruned or fallen trees (no branches are cut intentionally), the project focuses on the link between human production and nature. For the artist, the key to this quest lies in “the relationship between the architectural and the organic, as well as the cycle and transformation of matter”. This is materialised in “a kind of large-scale plant neural network that also considers the physical and perceptual relationship between the artwork, its surroundings and the spectators, with a view to disturbing the space in which it is located”.
In biology, the word “host” refers to an organism that harbours another organism whether within or on its body. Symbiotic relationships, such as parasitism, commensalism or mutualism, are meaningful connections that can be reflected upon in relation to artistic practice, its context and contemporary issues within the crisis of the Anthropocene.
This exhibition engages in dialogue, within the BIENALSUR cartography, with the series of chapters of the Invocations project taking place at the venues in Milan and Rome, as well as with the one being carried out in Naples. In its connection between the human and the non-human, it is also linked to the project presented in San Juan, Argentina, among others.
Once the exhibition concludes, the branches will return to their predetermined fate as pruning waste. The artist conducts this process in a distinctive manner, producing a site-specific piece that exhibits different characteristics each time, adapting both in terms of its materials and procedures, and in its scale and symbolic significance.
Image: Camilo Guinot, Deriva Constructiva, 202. Photo: Horacio Volpatto