This Thursday, August 1, at 7 PM, the exhibition “Rastrojos” by visual artist Luciana Sodiro will be inaugurated at the Museum of Contemporary Art of UNL, Bv. Gálvez 1578. Curated by Karina Fabiana Mendoza, it features works based on textile constructions, with multiple formats and materialities.
“The exhibition is called Rastrojos because it represents the cyclical movement of cultivation. I began working with the field and its crops around the year 2021 when I presented a project that involved investigating the landscape I inhabit,” the artist explains. “The textile works function as propitiatory objects that help to cure, heal, or protect the crops and plants. I aim to connect the body and the senses within the field and recognize each natural element, entering a kind of trance every time I performed the action, documenting the moment with photos and videos.”
Visitors will encounter hand-embroidered frames on sublimated fabrics featuring photographs of the actions taken in the field, collages of sublimated fabrics, three-dimensional textile forms with various colors and textures, a video installation, stubble, and a textile blanket made with fabric scraps.
“The blanket is made from fabrics inherited and given by the neighbors of my town, who later collaborated in the collective creation. These fabrics are chromatically linked,” she highlighted and added, “this blanket was used for various protective actions in different places in the field, covering and protecting.”
The field and its landscapes
Luciana Sodiro was born and lives in Santa Clara de Saguier, province of Santa Fe. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Painting and is a Professor of Plastic Arts from UNC and a Technician in Visual Arts from the Provincial School of Ceramics, Córdoba.
She develops artistic projects that connect the landscape she inhabits, the plain, and agriculture with actions and symbolic devices. “I am interested in investigating the changing landscape that is constructed in the field from the various crops and their growth cycles. The plain, the gringa pampa, the cultivation, and the food. Listening to the voices of the people who inhabit the place and recovering narratives gives me clues to generate symbolic devices to protect the seeds, the plants, the land.”
“In this exhibition, I worked directly with the stubble, the remnants of the crop that has already been harvested and what is left on the ground. Encountering the waste from corn crops, so valued by different cultures and ancestors.”
After the inauguration, the exhibition will remain mounted until September 14 and can be visited during MAC UNL hours, from Tuesday to Friday from 9 AM to 1 PM and from Thursday to Sunday from 3 PM to 7 PM.