The second edition of BIENALSUR 2019, the cultural event of contemporary art from Argentina to the world, inaugurates on June 28 at 5 pm the installation "Other Stories", at the National Historical Museum, with works by artists Andrés Argüelles (PER) and Nicolás Robbio (ARG).
Curated by BIENALSUR (Marina Aguerre and Diana Wechsler) and with works by Andrés Argüelles Vigo (PER) and Nicolás Robbio (ARG), this exhibition is part of the remarkable program that BIENALSUR 2019 will unfold from June 22 to 29 in Buenos Aires: a great concentration of proposals in museums, institutions, cultural centres and emblematic urban spaces with which the biennial works jointly and collaboratively.
"The historical narrative organizes and at the same time seeks to interpret the past, while the curatorial operation of the assembly -by juxtaposing images and timings- tries other modes of storytelling, discontinuous, broken, in which the relative position of each piece implies in turn its resignification", explain the curators.
The historical narration and the assembly of images share the fact of knowing the point of arrival of history, given that they participate in the same present time from which aspects of the past are observed-analyzed-selected.
However, insofar as history needs certain narrative structures that gives it continuity and makes it readable, the assembly proposes the pooling of different images, but a pooling that inevitably leaves spaces, interstices between the images that are what invite the spectator to complete, from his perspective, with his gaze - a cultural gaze, populated with knowledge that is what constitutes it - a possible story, in which the senses expand, beyond a conclusive narrative.
It is in this assembly operation that resides the selection of these interventions by contemporary artists in the narrative of the National Historical Museum in search of critically interfering with the already established senses in order to illuminate other possible narratives with a shock between different times, perspectives and devices.
