Material 2022

Aurora Pellizzi’s work combines formal precepts of painting and sculpture with craft techniques. Her practice is informed by pre-industrial textile processes and materials, from natural dyeing to back-strap loom weaving. Technical constraints give way to textural, dimensional shapes and forms. Fiber is used both as a pictorial field and as the embodiment of the subject it represents.

The research processes of Tania Candiani take as starting point language, text, and the political implications of the domestic. Her translation strategies amongst systems- linguistic, visual, phonic- and practices, generate associations, where there is a constant nostalgia for the obsolete that takes in consideration the discursive content of artifacts and former projections
of future.

Iván Krassoievitch’s work can be defined as a philosophical and didactic reflection on written language. For some years now, Krassoievitch has focused on exploring, questioning, translating and re-coding texts; as well as highlighting the plastic materiality of language and its relationship with the visual arts, concentrating particularly on genres such as poetry and the manifesto.

Otto Berchem presents a project that is inspired by the metaphysical code created by the Uruguayan poet Jorge Adoum, the writings of Vladimir Nabokov, Peter Saville’s de-signs for the first three New Order albums, and the condition of Synaesthesia. Based on these codes, Berchem created his own alphabet of designated colors, which are presented through a series of drawings, photos, and paintings of texts, where the artist explores the concept of guilt, failure and the poetic.