JOAQUÍN FARGAS-EXHIBITION – TELAM Agency
A few weeks after completing a residency in the Californian Sonora desert, as part of a ThoughtWorks Arts program within the Bombay Beach Biennale, the artist and engineer Joaquín Fargas will exhibit a series of installations created there and other recent works at the Consulted Argentine of the city of New York.
The sample will be integrated by several works that review the work of Fargas. “Speculative Futures” is an installation made up of twelve solar robots that perform a performance by moving their heads gently to worship the sun at dawn. These expeditionary robots have a precedent: a previous work by Fargas, “Robotika”, developed in 2019.
“Unknown Bot” is a kind of creature looking for a place where life can be possible. It is a mobile entity that allows you to scan polluted lakes and rivers in search of possible forms of life and the state in which they are found. With this work, a performance was made at the Salton Sea in California.
“Planet B” is a sculptural and poetic representation of Earth’s drought inspired by the dry land of the desert, built with pieces of “cracked earth” from the area. The project includes a performance and a poem by Kristen Elzey, to invite the viewer to reflect on caring for our planet.
In this exhibition inside the Argentine Consulate, the artist also exposes his “Biosphere Project”, completely sealed spheres that contain a natural ecosystem and “complex; The Absolute Book”, a work based on The Library of Babel and “The Book of Sand” , fantastic stories by Borges that address the concepts of finitude and infinity; “Pulsar la Tierra”, “The Utopian Video documentary” and “From Gaia to the Blocchain and the NFTs”.
Fargas was born in Buenos Aires in 1950 and his works are a combination of art, science and technology. Since the 1980s, he has been recognized as a great popularizer of science and technology.
Source: Ambito
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