Senderos (Paths), 2014

Alexandra Kehayoglou

The Buenos Aires pampas soil was sprung by grasslands and woods inhabited by species that are now endangered, restricted to runners on routes verges or refugee in nature reserves.

Knit grassland is my way to pay homage to the pampas soil, to stop time, to immortalize the landscape into a carpet. As inhabitants of this land, we modified the landscape. Our passage is printed on the ground leaving a brand speaking of vices and possibilities.

Paths is asite specific installation that refers to our footprint; the artwork is inspired in the ways that the cows transit left on pastures, thoseflawed routes that are ploughed againand again.

The viewer that enters the Café Proa becomes a performer. He faces a path forks, path on which he may or he may not walk.

La naturaleza de un hecho es la ironía (The nature of a fact is the irony), 2014

Luciana Rondolini

The artwork is composed of several mirrors arranged in a tableau recreating a luxurious decorated style. The proposal seeks to create in the viewer a reflection on the different realities exposed in the short story “Continuity of the parks”.

The artwork has two reading levels, first, at a distance, it appears as an object of a sumptuous interior, inspired by the imagery of luxury and noble materials. In a second reading, approaching the object, the viewer notices that the mirrors have been made ​​with a pastry bag in construction materials.

In this sense, the work refers to the system of Chinese boxes presenting the story, in which it is possible to identify three levels of reality: the reader, the character reading the story and the reality in which the novel takes place that the character in the story reads.

Balcón/Cianómetro (Proa), 2014

Guillermo E. Rodríguez

In the terrace area, the artist Guillermo E. Rodríguez works on an atmospheric experience that will bind together the viewer with the visible sky performance.The site-specific installation Balcony / cyanometer (Proa) consists in converting Proa´s balcony wall in a cyanometer of monumental scale. The cyanometer is an instrument for measuring the blue tone of the sky, whose invention is attributed to Horace-Benedict de Saussure.

This artwork, sensitive to the sky tone changes, rehearses a response to the Cyanometer (2013) by Bolivian artist Andres Pereira-Paz. Thecyanometer, designed specifically for this scenario proposal, invites the viewer to take part of the reality of light and to be sensitive to hisenvironment, being them as active viewers the ones who give the final meaning to the artwork.