False Bottom

At stake in Eduardo Basualdo’s art (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1977) is an imaginary that reflects on the tension between language and the body as builders of reality. The artist makes use of fiction to expand cartographies, to generate territories where all there seems to be is a line. His work summons viewers to an experience in the present time; it suggests a fragile balance on the verge of breaking; it dares us, on occasion, to heighten our senses. The principles that govern space, the body, and reason engage in dialogue to shape an experience of freedom in a physical and philosophical sense. Basualdo’s installations are akin to landscapes steeped in dramatic tension where the viewer is asked to play a leading role in a palpable fiction. He tackles the category of the sublime with a sense of darkness: Viewers are captives of an imposing image while also, somehow, eagerly awaiting something that never happens to happen. Danger and curiosity vie in unabating contradiction.

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Schöneberger Ufer 61

Berlin, NY