artnexus #39

Graciela Sacco (1956, Argentina) consolidated her artwork during a very complex phase of re­ cent Argentine history: that of the end of the military dictatorship in which repression, exile, and desperation made up part of daily life. Photography plays a basic role in her work, with the peculiarity that her interest centers on using the medium of heliography, generating images that surprise the viewer with their play of lights and shadows that are not unknown to the ad­vertising world, and which help them act in the public and private space. Let it suffice to recall her participation in the Havana Biennial or in the São Paulo Biennial, where she did not limit herself to the interior pavilions, but rather took her proposal into the street, thus creating in São Paulo an action in which she involved mail art with the urban space. The political sense of her work, therefore, is not random when she reflects on the relationship between art and daily life from a perspective that does not seek to be di­dactic, but rather creates through its images situ­ations of ambiguity that do not attempt to give answers. Instead, they make the viewer think, seeking to bring him out of silence, of apparent indifference, in order to motivate the ability to see, to interrogate.

IVONNE PINI