In this audiovisual compilation of videos, recordings of installations, and images of drawings and paintings, the Argentine artist Matías Duville, takes us on a journey through the desolate landscapes and those in a state of constant flux that he explores in his work. Having suffered from cataclysms, they make us feel the full power of nature, its reactions and shifts, emphasizing its sublime and terrifying power against which human agency seems volatile and enfeebled.
Tied together by a seductive soundscape, the images remind us of the earth’s capacity for change and reinvention once it has been hit by catastrophe - a power infinitely greater than that of our species. They also explore the bonds that we establish with it: of failed domination on the one hand, but also the potential harmonies we perceive in psychedelic visions. The video and laboratory of ideas are part of Duville’s ‘line into infinity’ - the name of the project, which refers to time and the essential element of the drawing that drives his work - a series of work produced over the past fifteen years in Argentina and overseas, exhibited at institutions in France, Brazil, and the USA.
A line to infinity was presented at the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires in 2020.
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2 окт 2024
