Gorriónes y Eucaliptos Rosados (mar) / Pink Sparrows and Eucalypts (sea)
Museo MAR (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de la Provincia de Buenos Aires), Mar del Plata
as part of BIENALSUR 2025, the 5th Bienal of International Contemporary Art of the Global South
July 2025 - July 2027
My artistic practice addresses the history of nonhuman species through anthropomorphism, speculative fiction, autobiography, fieldwork, and archival research to produce multidisciplinary exhibitions and projects. The Global South and the legacies of colonialism, nationalism, modernism, and migration, which host animal and plant narratives, are the focus of my research and material studio explorations.
Gorriónes y Eucaliptos Rosados (mar) (Pink Sparrows and Eucalypts (sea)) is an 80-meter-long and 12-meter-high textile installation, created specifically for the entrance hall of the Museo MAR in Mar del Plata, as part of BIENALSUR 2025, the 5th Bienal of International Contemporary Art of the Global South. The work brings together multiple observations, historical references, literary gestures, and personal autobiographical reflections that invite us to reflect on how the introduction of house sparrows as a colonial gesture, the introduction of eucalyptus as a gesture in the southern hemisphere, and the color pink, are incorporated into the Argentine landscape and now inhabit the contemporary Argentine imagination.
Reflecting on familial experiences in the interior landscapes of La Pampa and Australia, birdwatching, queer theory, creative writing, and typographic design, the work produces a playful linguistic interplay that challenges colonial constructions in this country. A playful alphabet, diverse fabrics, and emergent words extend throughout the museum like friezes and banners, forming and unmaking new words in multiple languages. At once a celebration and protest, the text invites the audience to question their own coloniality through the history of other species in their everyday lives. Floating like sparrows and spreading like eucalyptus trees throughout the atrium, these checkered textile forms become inhabitants, introduced agents, new creatures, from what I call a sur<>sur or south<>south perspective, thinking across Argentina and Australia, from a space where we all try to understand a still unsettled multispecies, multipolitical, and multihistorical situation.
