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Griselda Gambaro. With the premiere of El desatino [The Blunder], in 1965, the playwright Griselda Gambaro (Buenos Aires, 1928) produced a decisive break from the male realist poetics that dominated the Buenos Aires theatre of the 1960s. This play ignited a heated debate between Realists and Absurdists which ran for the rest of the decade. Accused at the time of being a ‘foreignising’, ‘depoliticised’ ‘copy of the European absurd’, El desatino ushered in an anti-naturalist line of enormous consequence for Argentinian theatre. Gambaro’s explosive production opens as follows: ‘Alfonso wakes with a black iron contraption, some 40 cm long, attached to his foot. He tries unsuccessfully to move the device. He does not seem overly bothered by it.’ For this exhibition, her long-time collaborators, theatre director Laura Yusem, set and costume designer Graciela Galán and actress and director Cristina Banegas join forces with visual artist Daniel Basso – the recreator of El desatino’s iconic device – to reflect on Gambaro’s immense legacy.