Shapes of the invisible : Virginia Guilisasti

Press release Salta Museum of Contemporary Art:

The group exhibition proposed for Salta's MAC is assembled from the proposals presented by the three participating artists - Gimena Castellon Arrieta (AR), Virginia Guilisasti (CL) and Jimena Brescia (AR) - gathered around themes related to everyday gestures and materials. As an evolution of the exhibition presented in the city of Chillán in November 2023, included in the official selection of Bienalsur, the current show returns to the foundation of a work that is built from the assembly of installations that include video, photography and everyday materials such as cardboard, plush, different fabrics and a variety of elements rescued from the waste.
Formas de lo invisible starts from this minimal discovery, to recognize the value of what has been left aside, subjugated by the undisputed establishment of the so-called “normality”. This effort to recognize what seems fragile and ungraspable maintains a political correlate that points towards a recovery of the invisible gestures that sustain the agency of everyday life. By exposing and giving form to the power contained in these inconsequential gestures and actions, a small emancipation is also provoked, commonly associated with the situations that make up the realm of the feminine. Suddenly, this exhibition proposes a journey where the objects and acts of our lives begin to show a different force, an intrigue that reveals the existence of the world of care and shelter that welcomes our affective and bodily coexistence.

Virginia Guilisasti arma una obra que emplea coirón, fieltro, algodón, yuyos y otros materiales triviales para desplegar una acción colectiva. Mediante el gesto reiterado de trenzar con dichos elementos, la artista recoge el trabajo de un número de mujeres invitadas a participar en un acto de lenta liberación, inspirado en el esfuerzo de una madre inmigrante que trenzaba el cabello de su hija cada mañana.