Viviana Zargón
b. 1958 in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Viviana Zargón
b. 1958 in Buenos Aires, Argentina
GUIDO YANNITTO
1981, Mendoza, Argentina
ARTISTS
GUIDO YANNITTO
1981 Mendoza, Argentina
GUIDO YANNITTO
WORK
SOMETHING THAT ALWAYS ESCAPES
Something that always escapes
Something that always escapes is a series of collages that Guido Yannitto has been working on for four years. They are made with wool glued on canvas. The designs are made from the bars of the houses of the cities that he inhabits. The project began in Bogotá where the artist spent a year doing the Flora scholarship. The interest in the artisan and anonymous work of bars in the city was a starting point to think about these collages and link them with ceremonial masks from the Chocó region in Colombia and the Cholets, a type of Bolivian architecture typical of the Alto de La Paz zone in Bolivia. These combinations and hybridizations of both conceptual and formal resources result in these collages that recall aerial views of territories, as well as a type of system or imaginary concept maps.
BREALITO
Brealito
The tapestry arises from superstitions around a lagoon located in the Salteños valleys: the Brealito lagoon. Many things are said about this lagoon, one of them is that there was a submerged city, replicating the history of the city of Esteco (a city that was located near the city of Salta and that in the 16th century was destroyed by an earthquake and flooded). The geometric pattern used in the tapestry is the same as in a tapestry by Pajita García Bes, an artist from the 1960s from Salta, the tapestry is called "Mermaid of the Swamp". I was interested in this reference because in the Brealito lagoon it is also said that there are mermaids, so I took this pattern that represents water and with the weaver we worked on it from the concept of "Glitch" or error as a system failure, referring to the translation problems I have whenever I work with weavers, someone who technically translates a design that I propose, I am interested in these communication processes that produce a new and out-of-plan image.
The video is a more direct reference to the myth of the mermaid. The sound, the music and the images have a hypnotic character that ends with the last scene with a hive of wasps that for me refers to a tragic end of death.
HEMISPHERE
Hemisferio (Hemisphere Project)
Hemisphere is a project made in Antartica. It refers to a dialectical, geographical (North/South hemisphere), mental (right/left hemisphere) situation. With Antarctica being a radical environment that could be considered as a geographical shift, Hemisphere is presented as an undefined state where the body is located in an idea of territory and landscape and also in an undetermined state of mind.
Initially, my project consisted in research about the use of fresh water at the military bases. The fact that Antarctica is the largest fresh water reservoir in our planet was related to works I have been developing where water was conceived as an essential material. “Hacer agua” (making water) is an expression used by people who work at the bases to refer to the activity of producing the water to be consumed, because, despite the fact that it is the largest water reservoir, it is hard to obtain. I filmed this video, while the members of the base were performing this activity.
Initially, my project consisted in research about the use of fresh water at the military bases. The fact that Antarctica is the largest fresh water reservoir in our planet was related to works I have been developing where water is conceived as an essential material. “Hacer agua” (making water) is an expression used by people who work at the bases to refer to the activity of producing the water to be consumed, because, despite the fact that it is the largest water reservoir, it is hard to obtain. I filmed this video, while the members of the base were performing this activity.
“Avistaje” (sight, view) is an abstract drawing made from footprints while walking on the slope of a volcano where the directions of the lines are marked by mirrors left on the ground. They also work as spontaneous nodes of direction. The audio in this video is the live recording of the statics produced by the radio at the military base.
INSTALLATIONS