Naturaleza arquitecta [Nature, the Architect] is an invitation to listen to the voice of the Earth – the murmurs of its rivers, the choruses of its forests, the restless rumblings of its volcanoes – and to conceive of nature as an artist capable of unleashing all its creative, political, vital force. Inspired by such thinkers as Paulo Tavares, who proposes we view forests, mountains and rivers as cultural architectures and territories, Naturaleza arquitecta reveals the inventive power of matter and our natural environments, recognising them as agents with rights of their own and exploring their forms of life, memory and sensible organisation. In this exhibition, the artists approach nature from multiple analytical and committed, wondrous and imaginative perspectives to translate them into images through the transformative prism of art. Against the backdrop of humanitarian and environmental crisis, this exhibition seeks to affirm the power of art and the role of artists in acknowledging and protecting nature and to awaken new forms of empathy and responsibility towards the world we inhabit.
Artists and collectives: Manuel Brandazza (Argentina, 1975), Adriana Bustos (Argentina, 1965), Ariel Cusnir (Argentina, 1981), Jonathas de Andrade (Brazil, 1982), Julián D’Angiolillo (Argentina, 1976), Cao Guimarães (Brazil, 1965) & Rivane Neuenschwander (Brazil, 1967), Florencia Levy (Argentina, 1979), m7red (Argentina, 2005), Valeria Maggi (Argentina, 1985), Eduardo Navarro (Argentina, 1979), Rayana Rayo (Brazil, 1989), Casa Río (Argentina, 2021), Florencia Rodríguez Giles (Argentina, 1978), Sebastián Roque (Argentina, 1982), Tomás Saraceno (Argentina, 1973), Felix Shumba (Zimbabwe, 1989) and Paulo Tavares (Brazil, 1980), and Utopía del Sur / Fundación Nicolás García Uriburu (Argentina), among others.
Curated by: Patricio Orellana, Head of the Curatorial Department at the Museo Moderno, in conversation with Victoria Noorthoorn, director of the Museo Moderno