This two-part exhibition takes as its starting point the tension between humidity and dryness. Through a movement between both qualities, the works gathered here explore aspects such as landscape, eroticism, language, colonial memory, extractive violence, crisis and regeneration of the planet. This first exhibition explores the possibilities of the liquid and the second will focus on the desert.

Entering the humid allows us to imagine an encounter between thaws, slime and rivers, where the fluidity and changing states of water serve as metaphors for non-normative forms of existence that urge us to put an end to an anthropocentric vision of the world. The eventual disappearance of the river and its shores -as evoked by Barbara Oettinger’s work that gives the project its title- suggests not only a blurring of borders but also the changes of a planet on the verge of collapse.

The pieces by these artists, which are part of the Il Posto collection, remind us of the interdependence between humidity, life, saliva, river, plant, rain and what it implies to understand water not so much as an inert resource but as a living force that is also the only possibility for the future.

Artists: Paula Baeza Pailamilla (CL), Seba Calfuqueo (CL), Enrique Ramírez (CL), Regina José Galindo (GUAT), Carlos Motta (CO), Wynnie Mynerva (PE), Barbara Oettinger (CL), Fernando Prats (CL), Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa (GUAT) and Johanna Unzueta (CL).

Gala Berger + Miguel A. López