Curated by Irene Gelfman
Archaeology of the Environment
In this new edition of the Video Project, the selected artists are known for creating works that invite viewers to observe the details of everyday surroundings, revealing the contradictions and consequences of contemporary lifestyles.
Andrea Canepa’s piece reflects on how institutions serve as support structures for bodies, just as bodies, in turn, sustain institutions.
In his video performance, Enrique Pezo covers his own body in rubber to highlight symbols laden with ambivalence—a dialectic between Western progress—industrialized rubber—and Indigenous epistemologies, aiming to destabilize the linearity of modern narratives.
In Gianine Tabja’s video installation, sand falls to the ground while simultaneously marking the body. In this way, she positions the body as an interlocutor of memory and territory. This gesture generates a relationship and tension between time, land, and human presence.
Through a simple aesthetic, Adrián Sosa exposes the obvious truths of reality that often go unnoticed. His video performance is a powerful statement on the social inequalities within his territory.
Donna Conlon’s three video pieces stem from her socio-archaeological exploration of her immediate environment, revealing idiosyncrasies inherent to human behavior. Together, they form a kind of forest where the presence of the human body results in a work that is both beautiful and unsettling.
Although each video stands as a self-contained unit of meaning, their coexistence in a shared space creates a new narrative—one that invites us to reflect on the relationship between our own bodies and the surrounding environment.
Artists:
- Adrian Sosa, Cuando lo profundo está cerca (2023)
- Andrea Canepa, Le Forze d’ Ercole (2025)
- Gianine Tabja, Una línea temporal (2018)
- 4. Enrique Pezo, Cubrir el cuerpo (2025)Donna Conlon, Zona de confort (2010), Omen (Presagio) (2022), Manipulaciones (Maníferos) (2021)
Irene Gelfman
Graduate and teacher of Middle and Higher Education in Arts (FFyL - UBA); she attended the # 11 Artists Program at UTDT (Critic and Curator). She is the winner of the first prize New Curators of the AMALITA Collection and the Argentine Association of Art Critics. She works in curation, management, and art criticism. She is the founder and director of Minerva Universos Visuales, an art studio focused on the dissemination of Art History content for diverse audiences, giving a clinic for artists and consulting for cultural projects. She writes for various media, publications and catalogs (Otra Parte, Colección de Artistas, among others). With more than seven years of experience in different areas of cultural management, both public (national and local) and private (foundations and NGOs), she coordinates and produces content. In addition, she put together the programming in areas such as theater, visuals, and music for different festivals, fairs, and international events in which Argentina was invited as a guest country. She developed and coordinated an aid program to promote Argentine artists abroad (APEX-Ministerio de Cultura Nación) and was a strategic advisor for the Barrios Creativos program.