The works presented here belong to a group of artists responsible for creating a collective imagination (but not objective) that, full of symbolism, beliefs, desires and criticisms, analyzes our present.
They have a keen sense of perception, through which they challenge and expand our vision of the world. They appropriate objects produced massively by an industry that encourages excessive consumption, as we can identify in the work of Elisa Insua or they echo the traditions of the past in current productions, as is the case of Eugenia Mendoza with her sculptures and facilities. I also think of Nicolás Rodríguez and Greta Schormair, who master materials to allow us to inhabit alternative spaces and reinterpret our corporalities.
Others choose to investigate the concept of representation, to investigate in their paintings cultural phenomena so deeply rooted that we almost forget the effect they have on our understanding of reality. I am referring to actions such as selfies, captured by Belén López de Carlo, or her reversal of the still life. If in the 17th century Flanders painters like Clara Peeters presented the exotic goods and delicacies that were within the reach of the bourgeoisie, Belén places a can of Coca-Cola and a cell phone on the table. Also present are the recent socio-cultural crises that destabilized us, the impact of new technologies and the icons of popular culture that arouse the interest of François Thevenet, who provides a dose of irony and necessary humor.

Nase Pop and Jorge Pomar double down and insert into the private space aesthetics and visions that dialogue with a language typical of the urban, a territory that offers us an unprejudiced and organic relationship with art, in which they move with absolute comfort and conviction.
Finally, we immerse ourselves in a more introspective instance, through the abstract photographs of Ces Gil, which go back to dreams and hallucinations that he experienced during his childhood as a result of episodes of fever that he suffered, or the “Bosquian-reloaded” scenes that They emerge from the enigmatic imagination of Marcelo Canevari and from experience I assure you that you will be hypnotized.
But how do we connect with this world that is in a stage of unstoppable metamorphosis? Where do we anchor ourselves in the face of cultural acceleration? This exhibition invites us to strengthen ties with what surrounds us and that we can observe, feel and approach, to re-establish a lasting relationship with matter and transform art into a second skin that helps us inhabit the present.

Melisa Boratyn
Buenos Aires, September 2022