ExhibitionJuly 14, 2022
Eduardo Basualdo: Pupil Exhibition at Museum of Modern Art
Eduardo Basualdo (b. Buenos Aires, 1977) recently opened the solo exhibition “Pupil” at the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires, curated by Victoria Noorthoorn in collaboration with Alejandra Aguado and Clarisa Appendino.
Basualdo invites the viewer on an imaginary journey through the human mind in the exhibition. Through dozens of drawings, he shares his research into the power of viewing in human development and as a performative act transforming life – or, more precisely, human relationships. In Pupila [Pupil¬], the artist shares his extensive research process – which he refers to as “a process everyone could do!” With these words, he invites the audience on a fascinating journey of introspection.
Major catastrophes can bring down the walls – or membranes – that separate one person from another and the inner from the outer world. The artist’s eye turns outward to contemplate the same figures that had, until then, nestled only in his nightmares, as if the caverns of his brain could no longer contain this malignant seething. It is then he understands that these images do not belong entirely to him, that they arise out of the atavistic background of all the preceding generations. The inability to know which way one looks brings the most insidious torments. To exit this unreality, the artist sets it down on paper: in ink, pencil or charcoal, traces signs that will not be erased before being deciphered, like the writing in the water of dreams, traces which can be looked at and looked at again, and which others will perhaps look at, too, and understand even better than they do. The future comes knocking at the door. The reward will not be to awaken from the nightmare but merely the paltry but precious power to distinguish what is a nightmare from what is not.
The exhibition will be on view until February 28, 2023.
For more information, visit: https://museomoderno.org/en/exhibitions/eduardo-basualdo-pupila/
Basualdo invites the viewer on an imaginary journey through the human mind in the exhibition. Through dozens of drawings, he shares his research into the power of viewing in human development and as a performative act transforming life – or, more precisely, human relationships. In Pupila [Pupil¬], the artist shares his extensive research process – which he refers to as “a process everyone could do!” With these words, he invites the audience on a fascinating journey of introspection.
Major catastrophes can bring down the walls – or membranes – that separate one person from another and the inner from the outer world. The artist’s eye turns outward to contemplate the same figures that had, until then, nestled only in his nightmares, as if the caverns of his brain could no longer contain this malignant seething. It is then he understands that these images do not belong entirely to him, that they arise out of the atavistic background of all the preceding generations. The inability to know which way one looks brings the most insidious torments. To exit this unreality, the artist sets it down on paper: in ink, pencil or charcoal, traces signs that will not be erased before being deciphered, like the writing in the water of dreams, traces which can be looked at and looked at again, and which others will perhaps look at, too, and understand even better than they do. The future comes knocking at the door. The reward will not be to awaken from the nightmare but merely the paltry but precious power to distinguish what is a nightmare from what is not.
The exhibition will be on view until February 28, 2023.
For more information, visit: https://museomoderno.org/en/exhibitions/eduardo-basualdo-pupila/
