Bayos negros dormidos

For several years now, Agustina Fioretti has been creating strange objects and images that resist recognition and taxonomic classification. Not only because of the materials she uses—horsehair and bird feathers—which lend her works uncertain forms of animality, but also due to her reuse of elements drawn from the world of construction. Fioretti displaces things from their original context, enacting a shift that enables her to produce new machinic-animal assemblages: neither horses nor birds, yet both at once. The cyborg emerges from the fusion of the technical and the animal, from the life of objects. What futures might arise from nests built with horsehair? What promises of monsters are announced in these futures?

Exhibition curated by Jesu Antuña.

The artistic practice of Agustina Fioretti (1991, Argentina) can be understood through the lens of displacement, mutation, and transformation, where a concern with archives—ranging from familial to institutional—converges with an interest in migration and in the more or less forced displacements of those who are often pushed to the point of abandoning human form.

Through various techniques and materials (installation, video, photography, text, and performance), she explores concepts such as interspecies bonds, oral narratives, rites of passage, what Victor Turner termed liminality as an intermediate or transitional space; metamorphosis, perhaps from north to south, and her own migration in connection with those undertaken by her family in previous decades.