Upcoming: 2027, Escat Gallery, Barcelona. 2027, Galería Praxis, Buenos Aires.
Ecos
Galería Praxis, Buenos Aires, 2026
Zona Maco
Sorondo Projects, Mexico City, 2026
arteBA
Sorondo Projects, Buenos Aires, 2025. With María Elena Pombo
La memoria de la tierra
What does the land remember? What does it hold in its waters in its minerals in its sedimented layers of time? Can it miss what once inhabited it? Can it speak to us even when we have not lived it only imagined it?
This exhibition begins with a simple yet radical premise. Territory is not only a physical support or a symbol of identity but a matter that remembers. The land is seen as a living archive as a porous surface where absences, gestures and bonds are inscribed.
Throughout Latin America territory has historically been a space of reverie but also of dispute appropriation and displacement. From before colonization to the present it has functioned as a resource as a border as a stage and as a body. Thinking of the land not only as landscape but as memory allows us to unsettle linear origin stories and to open space for other forms of belonging. These forms may be unstable hybrid or interrupted but they are equally valid.
El núcleo de lo múltiple.
Antonela Aiassa (Buenos Aires, 1988) presents El núcleo de lo múltiple, an installation that explores cycles of transformation, the fragility of matter and shifts of identity. At the center of the work, a block of ice encloses a core of natural pigment extracted in collaboration with Liliana Pastrana, an artisan with whom Aiassa has built a long, ethical and sustained relationship. The pigment comes from Tafí del Valle, an ancestral and deeply symbolic territory within the landscape of northwestern Argentina.
As the ice melts, the pigment is slowly released, generating ephemeral and unpredictable forms, as if memory itself were emerging drop by drop. The installation is completed by a painting on cotton dyed with organic pigments that evokes an expanded drop, and a video documenting the melting process, allowing the work to persist even after its transformation.
Drawing on the Tao, on Zygmunt Bauman’s liquid modernity and on the idea of identity as a project (Anthony Giddens), Aiassa turns time into a mutable material. Ice stands for the transitory; dye, for the essential. Both materials come from landscapes with which the artist has no direct connection, only a symbolic one: inner territories projected onto real matter. Her question is not “who am I?” but rather: what am I remembering? What am I letting go of? What am I becoming now?
Text by: Juliana Sorondo.
