ExhibitionJuly 13, 2023
Adriana Bustos: America. Museo MARCO
On March 18, the exhibition AMERICA by Argentine artist Adriana Bustos opened at the Museo MARCO La Boca (Fundación Tres Pinos), Buenos Aires, Argentina, curated by Eva Grinstein.
"Under the title America, this project begins with a gesture of linguistic and symbolic reappropriation: taking linguistic and symbolic reappropriation: to take for the south the name that is usually used by a part of the north of the continent. America for South Americans, the artist proposes in her way. What is America? Where is it? In this fictional cutout, America can be narrated from the geopolitics of our rivers.
On the first floor of the museum, a very extensive navigational chart -comparable to those used by the conquerors of the 16th century to make the routes to the new worlds more efficient - presents an overwhelming collection of images and data related to the contemporary life of some of the main waterways of the Southern Cone.
A thread that respects, in part, the north-south distribution of the actual geography, including the Orinoco descending through Venezuela and the Magdalena through Colombia; fluvial streams crossing tropical green Brazil; a Urubamba hugging the mountains of Machu Picchu; reddish-brown rivers rushing to empty into the Rio de la Plata and an open ending in the icy currents of the Beagle Channel.
The calamities generated by "progress," legal and illegal trafficking, reconfigured flora and fauna, extractivist voracity, and the effects of the advance on coasts and living beings, including humans, are some of the lines that cross an itinerary anchored in the crudest present. Bridges, mining companies, ships, dams, and violated bodies—postcards of devastation.
In the installation that occupies the first floor, a life-size, clay-colored fish-woman, in her strange condition of a muddy fish with gills and a vulva, is inert. The jungle landscape and the murmur of land and water bugs accompany her with indolence, absorbed in the wonder of their flow. Without knowing it, they have become witnesses of mutations and monstrosities that have nothing to envy the ones fabled by the chroniclers of the Indies.
Adriana Bustos's "America" is an invitation to connect and interpret; it is the disproportionate map of a mental traveler, from dream to nightmare and from there, if possible, to another utopia. There might be some hidden message in the smile of the pink Amazon dolphin. Almost extinct, it lives about thirty years in the wild and an average of thirty months in captivity, where it does not allow itself to be trained." Describes the curator of the exhibition, Eva Grinstein.
The exhibition's closing date will be September 10. For more information, visit: https://museomarco.org/exhibiciones/adriana-bustos/
"Under the title America, this project begins with a gesture of linguistic and symbolic reappropriation: taking linguistic and symbolic reappropriation: to take for the south the name that is usually used by a part of the north of the continent. America for South Americans, the artist proposes in her way. What is America? Where is it? In this fictional cutout, America can be narrated from the geopolitics of our rivers.
On the first floor of the museum, a very extensive navigational chart -comparable to those used by the conquerors of the 16th century to make the routes to the new worlds more efficient - presents an overwhelming collection of images and data related to the contemporary life of some of the main waterways of the Southern Cone.
A thread that respects, in part, the north-south distribution of the actual geography, including the Orinoco descending through Venezuela and the Magdalena through Colombia; fluvial streams crossing tropical green Brazil; a Urubamba hugging the mountains of Machu Picchu; reddish-brown rivers rushing to empty into the Rio de la Plata and an open ending in the icy currents of the Beagle Channel.
The calamities generated by "progress," legal and illegal trafficking, reconfigured flora and fauna, extractivist voracity, and the effects of the advance on coasts and living beings, including humans, are some of the lines that cross an itinerary anchored in the crudest present. Bridges, mining companies, ships, dams, and violated bodies—postcards of devastation.
In the installation that occupies the first floor, a life-size, clay-colored fish-woman, in her strange condition of a muddy fish with gills and a vulva, is inert. The jungle landscape and the murmur of land and water bugs accompany her with indolence, absorbed in the wonder of their flow. Without knowing it, they have become witnesses of mutations and monstrosities that have nothing to envy the ones fabled by the chroniclers of the Indies.
Adriana Bustos's "America" is an invitation to connect and interpret; it is the disproportionate map of a mental traveler, from dream to nightmare and from there, if possible, to another utopia. There might be some hidden message in the smile of the pink Amazon dolphin. Almost extinct, it lives about thirty years in the wild and an average of thirty months in captivity, where it does not allow itself to be trained." Describes the curator of the exhibition, Eva Grinstein.
The exhibition's closing date will be September 10. For more information, visit: https://museomarco.org/exhibiciones/adriana-bustos/
