Thinking about it, the visual arts are still a field that explores and experiences the relationship between human beings and nature. They allow us to study and publicize the ways in which we intervene and transform our environments. This exhibition took place at the CCNK in Chivilcoy, from August 13 to October 13, 2022.
The corpus is made up of works by native artists, residents or who carry out their activity in the town of Junín and the region: Hebe Argentieri, Guillermo Marzullo, Susana Nazer, Franco Palacios Beltran, Sabrina Silvestri Mansilla and Silvina Torviso.
Within this framework, on Saturday, September 17, they organized a new activation of the exhibition with two proposals open to the community: “Elements and objects around the Salado riverbed”, a meeting in charge of Diego Alba; and “Manifesto of a living crack”, an action of Celeste Fresedo. Both were summoned by Proyecto Totoral.
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Likewise, as part of the activities related to the exhibition, on Thursday, September 29, Franco Palacios Beltrána member of Proyecto Totoral, shared his impressions of the experience with a new audience, as part of a conversation with other artistic groups at Galería Damme (La Plata).
The Totoral Project is formed by a group of artists attentive to their time. A time that is actually many other times. On this occasion, his works speak of the temporal arcs of life and the cycles of the river, the alternation between floods and droughts, as well as changes in the color and composition of the water, accentuated by human action.
The totora is a plant with a rhizome that grows on the banks of watercourses, between grasslands and mudflats. The name of the project highlights both the presence of this plant in the area and the memory of a town that managed to set up, in earlier times, an industry around the production of chairs, baskets and other objects for domestic use from this plant. material.
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These artistic experiences like those of Totoral Project They deserve to be taken into account by the social and political sphere, especially at a time when debates are organized around environmental problems and the defense of wetlands.
I thank the artists of Totoral for allowing me to investigate their productions and summon me for the activation around the exhibition. Likewise, I thank the authorities of the CCNK of the town of Chivilcoy (province of Buenos Aires).
Visual artist and Doctoral Scholar by the UNLP at the Institute of History of Argentine and American Art of the Faculty of Arts, with the direction of the Mlg. Prof. Marcela Andruchow and the co-direction of Dr. Natalia Matewecki. He investigates art and archive practices in the Cuenca del Plata (1990 to the present).
For more information about the Totoral Project, consult the Instagram @proyectototoral .
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