curatorial text

Valeria González

Si el desierto avanza, sembremos más

Romina Orazi is an artist and an active participant in free culture. Her works, declared under the statute of copyleft, usually adopt the form of devices to be used, appropriate, copied, multiplied. Nomadic or adaptable shelters and houses, as well as the planting of plant species in marginal or inhospitable spaces, act as a metaphor for life that proliferates, stubborn, even in the midst of adversity.

Romina repudiates the value of originality (private ownership of resources) as much as she estimates that of authenticity (the desire that drives its use or appropriation). She measures the success of the projects by its contagion capacity. She is not interested in art as a space for the reproduction of power, but as an instance of the availability of powers.

Everything is given, Duchamp said, and so he reinvented the wheel. She also said that an artist is the one who can make that minimal but fundamental difference that separates one copy from another. The old idea of art as a brilliant creation would no longer be relevant, but the ability of all subjectivity to sustain itself in a world dominated by machines that replicates information.

Spinoza distinguished ironic laughter, which enjoys pointing out human misery, from ethical laughter, which celebrates what mankind is capable of. Recently, a jury’s decision to award Romina Orazi for her specific intervention project “Mobile Housing” has been contested, due to allegations of plagiarism reproduced via the Internet by a number of actors in the field of art.

One would have to wonder how valid a concept of plagiarism that began to be debated at least a century ago can have today. In any case, what is at stake here is not the mistakes, mistakes or negligence that an artist may commit in her work, but under what criteria we want to live together, at least in the art world”.

Romina Orazi · 04.12.2012 - 04.02.2013

Subject to infinite division

curatorial text

Valeria González

Si el desierto avanza, sembremos más

exhibition

other exhibitions

Clorindo Testa · 08.05.2025 - 11.06.2025

Testa Capsule Biennial ’87

Emilio Pettoruti, Xul Solar · 13.11.2024 - 31.01.2025

New World

Greco, Paparella, Berni, Gallardo, B. Network, Renart, F. Dinasty, Peralta Ramos, G. Rubio, Kosice, García Miranda, Sánchez, Gumier Maier, De la Vega, Mabel, Mia Miguita Superstar, Lamborghini, P. Klenik, Lozza, Polesello · 28.02.2025 - 23.04.2025

The clash

Osvaldo Lamborghini · 15.08.2024 - 17.10.2024

Yo soy tu proveedora

Emilio Renart · 10.05.2024 - 29.07.2024

Constancy of the specie

Axel Straschnoy, Beto De Volder, Clorindo Testa, Emilio Pettoruti, Enio Iommi, Esteban Pastorino, Gyula Kosice, Manuel Espinosa, Marcela Cabutti, Matilde Marin, Rogelio Polesello, Romina Ressia, Romulo Macció · 12.12.2023 - 15.02.2024

Indefinit

Axel Straschnoy · 02.11.2023 - 29.12.2023

Brave the Heavenly Breezes

André Komatsu, Enio Iommi, Clorindo Testa · 23.08.2023 - 31.10.2023

Hiato

Mariela Vita · 12.07.2023 - 16.08.2023

GEJIGEJI

Polesello, Aizenbeg, Kosice, Vardanega, Le Parc, Iommi, Puente, Arden Quin, Espinosa, Demarco, Straschnoy, De Volder, Pastorino, Imola, Batistelli, Cabutti, Reyna · 09.02.2023 - 15.03.2023

Eléctrico/ ecléctico

Fabiana Imola & Aníbal Brizuela · 16.09.2022 - 02.12.2022

Inside, the shapes. They move alone

Romina Ressia · 09.06.2022 - 25.08.2022

Grow flowers

Martín Reyna · 11.03.2022 - 03.06.2022

Color in transit

Matilde Marín · 08.02.2022 - 02.03.2022

25FPS

Clorindo Testa · 11.11.2021 - 31.01.2022

Testa, projects and other games

Cabutti, De Volder, Reyna, Imola, Ventoso, Ressia. · 05.10.2021 - 22.10.2021

Group Show 2021 II

Matilde Marín · 23.07.2015 - 21.09.2015

Undetermined landscapes

Marcela Cabutti · 16.07.2021 - 22.09.2021

Balcarce, topographic memories of a landscape

Benito Laren · 12.05.2012 - 22.06.2012

Casino

Lila Siegrist · 26.06.2012 - 27.08.2012

Vikinga Criolla

Cárdenas, Imola, Marin, Res, Sommerfelt, Ventoso · 10.08.2012 - 11.10.2012

Morphological confrontations

Martin Reyna · 20.09.2012 - 20.11.2012

Reyna in the horizon of color

Aizenberg, Boto, Espinosa, Iommi, Lozza, Le Parc, Kosice, Silva, Tomasello, Vardánega · 01.06.2013 - 31.07.2013

Dimensional

Antoniadis, Marín · 07.09.2013 - 07.11.2013

Double contrast

Andrés Sobrino · 28.03.2013 - 30.05.2013

Andrés Sobrino

Antoniadis, Cabutti, Laren, Reyna, Florido, Sobrino, Straschnoy, Tarazona, Ventoso · 20.12.2013 - 15.02.2014

Universus

Elena Dahn · 25.03.2014 - 26.05.2014

Elena Dahn

Marcela Cabutti · 15.07.2014 - 15.09.2014

Finding meaning through shapes

Axel Straschnoy · 12.11.2014 - 19.01.2015

La Figure de la Terre

Fusilier, León, Quesada Pons y Vega · 15.03.2015 - 30.04.2015

Limbo

Luciana Levington · 28.05.2015 - 24.07.2015

Luciana Levinton

Leo Battitelli · 12.11.2015 - 12.01.2016

Gargalhadas

Hasper, Scafati · 10.02.2016 - 11.04.2016

Womens’ double

Axel Straschnoy · 12.05.2016 - 13.06.2016

Today, great tomorrow!, in the pines wind blows from the past.

Arden Quin, Boto, Demarco, Espinosa, Iommi, Le Parc, Lozza, Polesello, Puente, Silva, Testa, Tomasello · 07.06.2016 - 05.08.2016

Masters of the avant-garde

De Volder, Sobrino · 11.08.2016 - 10.10.2016

Andres Sobrino and Beto De Volder

Battistelli, Cabutti, Cacchiarelli, Sobrino, De Volder · 02.01.2017 - 28.02.2017