This is the first solo exhibition by artist Ximena Garrido-Lecca (Lima, 1980) in Buenos Aires. Curated by Lucrecia Palacios, the exhibition is a project designed specifically for the museum's Gallery 1; it records the process whereby industrialized copper recovers its original form as "native copper," i.e. the form in which the mineral may be found in its natural state before it is extracted.
Estados Nativos extends Ximena Garrido-Lecca's experience using copper, a material she has been working with since 2013 in sculpture in which the metal takes on the shape of a fabric. Trained in London and with monographic projects in such central spaces in that city as Frieze Art and Saatchi Gallery, Garrido-Lecca confronts the powerful relation existing between mining, industry, the process of rationalizing nature and the progressive disappearance of the artisanal traditions they imply.
The first space of this exhibition presents a large spool of electric cable from which were extracted the copper filaments inside it. These threads were, in turn, melted down, obtaining copper in liquid state. Through lost wax technique, the liquid will shape the pieces displayed in the last room. In the course of a visit the viewer will see the traces of activity carried out, as well as a series of tools and smelting utensils used in the process. In a third room, the just processed forms of "native copper" will be presented in a museum-style exhibition arranged in glass cabinets and with various media used in geological displays.
In the words of the curator: "Although Estados nativos insists on the artist's concern in the face of the destructiveness of the ideology of progress, in reversing the extracting processes and industrialization of copper, the exhibition seems to question the possibilities for thinking anew about the relation we establish with nature and, ultimately, the possibility of ceasing to take as second nature the history of modernity: how to take apart the narrative postulating the manifest destiny of nature as resource and the geopolitical division of nations in relation to the resources each of them has."
Through the “renaturalization” of copper, Estados nativos is an invitation to reflect on what is lost in the passage from natural copper to industrialized copper, and what other forms and possible values (social, cultural, economic) the unexploited mineral contains. Like other works by Ximena Garrido-Lecca, Estados nativos also is a sample case of artisanal traditions destined to fade away but which are still preserved.
With the Participation of the Galleries
Casado Santapau (Madrid) y 80M2 Livia Benavides (Lima)
Institutional support
Lima, Perú, 1980.
She studied at the Universidad Católica del Perú and after completing a specialization course earned a Master's in Arts at the Shaw Byam School of Art in London. Her solo exhibitions include: Insurgencias botánicas [Botanic Insurgencies]: Phaseolus lunatus, Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros [Siqueiros Public Art Room], Mexico City (2016); Arquitectura de humo [Architecture of Smoke], 80m2 Livia Benavides, Lima (2015); Paisaje antrópico [Anthropic Landscape], Max Wigram Gallery, London (2012), a monographic project at MIMA (Middlesborough Institute of Modern Art) (2012), El Porvenir [The Future], Mimmo Scognamiglio, Milan, Italy (2011), a monographic project at the Frieze Art Fair, London; at Revólver Gallery, Peru (2011) and at the Civic Room, London (2010). Her most recent group shows include: Arte Latinoamericano de Roaming, Arte Carolina del Norte, Bogotá (2013), Remesas: flujos simbólicos / movilidades de capital [Remittances: Symbolic Flows/ Mobilities of Capital], Centro Fundación Telefónica, Lima (2012), The Curator’s Altera Pars, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London (2012), What?, Mimmo Scognamiglio, Milan (2011), No Color in Your Cheeks Unless the Wind Lashes Your Face, curated by Timothée Chaillou (2011), Newspeak: British Art Now, The Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide (2011), Newspeak: British Art Now, Saatchi Gallery, London (2010) and Identity Theft, Mimmo Scognamiglio, Milan (2010).
Miércoles 9, 16, 23, 30 de agosto, y 6 de septiembre de 10:30 a 12:00. Biblioteca
El conocimiento alquímico, asociado a la transformación de los metales groseros en oro, no es una fantasía ni se reduce meramente a la química, es la búsqueda de la realización de la vida expresada en términos simbólicos.
Fragmento del ensayo curatorial que acompaña a la muestra Ximena Garrido. Estados nativos.
Introducción al artículo Continuidad y radicalización del neoextractivismo en la Argentina (2017). Maristella Svampa y Enrique Viale participarán este miércoles a las 19:00 del encuentro La naturaleza de la minería: extracción en América Latina. Organizado en el marco de la muestra Ximena Garrido-Lecca. Estados nativos, con entrada libre y gratuita.
Sábado 11 de noviembre a las 12:00. Biblioteca
Parte 11: Homenaje a Baigorria pone en relación la pintura y la máquina de llover y descubre una densa trama de documentos, archivos y especulaciones.
Por Faivovich & Goldberg
Sábado 11 de noviembre a las 12:00. Biblioteca
Miércoles 25 de octubre a las 18:30
Mumin – Museo de Minerales: Av. J. A. Roca 651
Partiendo del concepto de "profanación" de Giorgio Agamben, el artista Martín Legón teje, en una conferencia breve, las transformaciones genéticas del canario Hanz Roller, la poesía del sanjuanino Leónidas Escudero, la biopolitica, y la historia particular del oro en Argentina, entre otros temas.
Por Martín Legón
Miércoles 25 de octubre a las 18:30
Mumin – Museo de Minerales: Av. J. A. Roca 651
Miércoles 2 de agosto a las 19:00. Sala 1, Nivel -1
El panel se propone dar cuenta de la situación minera en América Latina al repasar sus orígenes potosinos, presentar un mapeo de la situación actual, y discutir las continuidades del modelo extractivo.
"Parte 11: Homenaje a Baigorria" pone en relación la pintura y la máquina de llover y descubre una densa trama de documentos, archivos y especulaciones.
Encuentro
Excedente infecundo
En un recorrido guiado que inicia en las obras del acervo de Malba y termina en la exposición de Ximena Garrido-Lecca, se dará cuenta de la dinámica extractiva que dio forma a América Latina desde el lejano Potosí, cuyo Cerro Rico fue extenuado hasta prácticamente su desaparición, hasta nuestros días.
Por Bruno Fornillo
Miércoles 19 de julio a las 19:00. Sala 1, Nivel -1