Mariana Obersztern / Agustina Muñoz : Actress. Moderno. Periphery.

Within the framework of the cycle Exposiciones en Cartel [Exhibitions on Display], which is part of the Public Programmes accompanying the Museo Moderno’s 2025 programme Esto es Teatro [This is Theatre], artists Mariana Obersztern and Agustina Muñoz present their performance piece Actriz. Moderno. Periferia [Actress. Moderno. Periphery.], creating a dialogue with the exhibitions presented throughout the year. 

“The actress takes to the stage from a distant corner of the room. She enters, overwhelmed by the many emotions she seems to have bundled up within herself, waiting for the moment to arrive when she can finally unpack them. Everything she has kept inside gathers energy and, once unpacked, that is precisely what it releases: it returns to the air all that has been concentrated within, like chains of carbon. The actress bursts in like a whirlwind, with her arms flung into the air creating wild gesticulations that both throw her off balance and, at the same time, steady her. The circles that unfold around her – an atmospheric effect stirred by her passage through the space – now ground her and transport her, as if she were travelling within the smoke rings given off by a menthol cigarette. The ethereal nature of the rings, as white as they are opaque, perhaps indicate she is enveloped in a fantasy; but this is not the case, for the actress has her feet firmly on the ground.” 

Mariana Obersztern / Agustina Muñoz