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alhaja
lucía scarsellettacurated by isabel reed
27.03 -12.04
PV: 26.03 / 6-9pm
In Alhaja, artist Lucía Scarselletta conducts an investigation into traditional Gaucho braiding and the manual leatherworking practices of the gaucho cowboy. This braiding technique was traditionally made by men to produce functional ranching equipment, formed from a mesh of Indigenous craft, Hispanic, North African, and Arab cultural lineages, and typifies layered histories of migration, exchange and cultural hybridisation.
As settler expansion intensified across the Río de la Plata region, braiders honed a personalised manual language in response to the suppression of traditional craft during the colonial period. Over time, these techniques evolved in acts of persistence and resistance, adapting new technologies while refusing erasure, generating contemporary forms.
Against this backdrop, the exhibition reconsiders gaucho braiding as a manual technology capable of articulating new material ethics. Scarsellettas' work addresses the violent infrastructures of ecological extraction within the land of the Gaucho and the modern agro-export model of Argentina, rereading Gaucho braiding and the leather industry through a post-humanist lens encompassing systems of labour, land, animal bodies, and cap
poetry reading and open mic
by femmesocial press11.04 / 4-6pm
Authors featured:
Benedetta Mancusi, Carys Maloney, Stephanie Ritzema, Clara Ada Mantegazza
FREE
auto amor vol. 5
curated by alicja orzechowska16 - 18.04
PV: 15.04 / 6-8pm
group exhibition in collaboration with auto amor.
whataloo
wolfgang hauptfleisch24.04 - 3.05
PV: 23.04 / 6-9pm
Like many obsessions, this one started during childhood, and was revived again and again. We spend a lot of time in those places, sometimes desperately search for them when travelling, too often taking them for granted or hardly notice them. Toilets, trivial on first sight, are often designed with creativity, show a wide variety of colours, architecture and history. And are nevertheless often neglected places.
A seemingly random and not so random collection of pieces based on of snapshots taken spontaneously over more than 15 years.