Carlos Gutierrez

This project is mainly focused on the study of artistic and curatorial practices in Argentina that deal with issues related to materiality and space. My aim is to delve into the work produced by artists across the country and, particularly, into the work of some artists included in the Museo Moderno’s collection.

In recent years, I have studied different ways of working in which materiality is a vehicle to dynamise ideas about the political-cultural background of the ways we humans relate to the environment. 

From a perspective focused on enunciative potential, functional analysis and the capacity for transformation or reconfiguration of objects, I find spaces to raise questions and hypotheses about the political tensions related to materials, their applications and their impact on the life of human and non-human organisms. My own work is constructed as a practice of reading, touching and assembling: the concern for space and its uses anchors me among a constellation of ideas that are linked to ecology, queer studies and sculpture.

From an ecological approach, I interpret each work as the result of the interconnection between the experiential and discursive spheres, so that, from an analysis of the factors that feed experience, it is possible to put forward other approaches to art and institutions. I believe that, through artistic endeavour, new perspectives can be developed in order to sketch out sensitive and sustainable ways of living.