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This is a research, production and didactic project focusing on the drawings and crafts belonging to the collection donated by the artist Alberto Heredia to the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires.
It will delve into the technological memories behind the artist’s repertoire of drawings and in the collection of handicrafts that he collected, currently a part of the museum’s collection. In order to carry out this research, I will produce a narrated and creative catalogue of these pieces, in which I will study the mechanisms used in their creative technologies, resources, uses, manufacturing actions, procedures, knowledge — technical, bodily and environmental — and the tools employed. I will try to trace a genealogy of technologies and outline an ethnography of objects.
Drawing and craftwork, as disciplinary fields, have historically had the advantage of being produced in close connection with the techniques and trades, and therefore with ways of producing ideas and solutions from a preliminary stage. However, in the modern art system, these fields have been relegated to minor practices. In the case of craftwork, this is exacerbated as they are seen as indigenous practices and are thus excluded from the dominant system of recognition. This technical subordination was accompanied, at the same time, by a socio-cultural resignation. I will try to reflect critically on both fields, since my artworks use their respective technologies and I thus recognise in them the link between knowledge, production and potential.
In this way, I propose to put together a handbook of tools and ways of producing — drawing, modelling, tracing, using of tools — that can be used as exercises and didactic devices for the educational area of the Museum or for the residents of the house.
The notion of clumsiness alluded to in the title of the project is related to a comment made by Javier Villa, ex-curator of the Museo, who, in an interview, stated that clumsiness arises as an artist’s creative operation in drawings and sculptures from the 1970s. Promoting clumsiness implies a political didactics of producing art taking bewilderment, hesitation, misunderstanding, and mistakes as its source. All this will come together in a work of action art which I will create.
Roxana Ramos Navarro is a visual artist. She holds a Bachelor of Arts, and teaches the course. Additionally, she is a PhD student in Arts (Universidad Nacional de Tucumán) and has postgraduate degrees in Cultural Management (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba), Curatorship (Universidad Católica de Salta) and Art Education (Salamanca, Spain). Between 2004 and 2011 she coordinated the independent management space ‘La Guarda’; between 2018 and 2023, she was pedagogical coordinator of the Escuela Provincial de Artes and a collaborator of Public Programmes of the National Ministry of Culture at the Museo Histórico (2021 and 2022).
She has curated in local museums: Arte andino contemporáneo [Contemporary Andean Art] (Museo Terry, Tilcara), Pensamiento y obra de Raúl Brié: crear fuera del cauce [The Thought and Work of Raúl Brié: Creating Outside the Riverbed] (Museo de Bellas Artes de Salta), Inflexiones de la mirada: arte y patrimonio [Inflexions of the Gaze: Art and Heritage] (Museo Histórico del Norte, Cabildo de Salta). She carries out academic research at the Universidad Católica de Salta, where she focuses on contemporary art in Salta, and also at the Universidad Nacional de Salta, where she researches management and artistic practices.
She was awarded a grant from the Programa de Artistas de la Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (2021-2022); the ‘Creación y Formación’ grants from the Fondo Nacional de las Artes (2019 and 2017); the ‘Montessori’ grant from the Universidad de Salamanca, Spain (2019); the grant from Fundación Antorchas, and the grant from Trama. She participated in the Biennial and the SACO residency in the Atacama Desert, Chile (2023).
In 2023, she won the In situ Award at the ‘Pinta BA Fotos’ Art Fair and the 8M Award from the Heritage Secretariat of the National Directorate of Museums of the Nation. In 2024, at ARCO Madrid, she won the Pre-Opening Award. She is an artist of Remota Gallery, Salta.