PRESENTATION PROA21 | Creation Residency The work and the artist can be visited from Wednesday to Sunday, 12 pm to 7 pm
Nazareno Pereyra: We Cannot Allow Artificial Intelligence to Write Our Poems
March 18 – June, 2026
Organized by: PROA21
Sponsored by: Tenaris – Ternium
PROA21 presents artist Nazareno Pereyra as part of its annual residency program. From April to June 2026, the artist inhabits the ground-floor gallery of PROA21, in La Boca, where he develops a site-specific work in real time at the intersection of visual arts and literature. During this period, PROA21 and the artist organize a program of activations with guests from different disciplines who engage in dialogue with the work in progress through encounters, interventions, and proposals open to the public.
Nazareno Pereyra is the first invited artist of the 2026 residency cycle at PROA21. Throughout the year, the space hosts multiple artists, collectives, and projects in residencies of varying duration, defined according to the needs of each proposal and in dialogue with the development of their professional trajectories. The residencies are conceived as creative processes open to the community, including exchanges with invited participants from other artistic and intellectual practices.
Nazareno Pereyra’s work operates at a constant intersection between writing and drawing: from cursive lettering to the line, or from the line to the word. In his notebooks, the blank page is quickly activated; blue ink imbues the paper with meaning through an insistent, almost bodily gesture. We cannot allow artificial intelligence to write our poems appears as a form of embodied resistance: the body writing persistently, with minimal resources—pencil, wall, body.
At PROA21, this gesture expands. For this site-specific work, the artist’s notebooks unfold into the space: the gallery becomes a blank page. Throughout the residency, the work develops in real time and the space is progressively transformed, like a stage that records the artist’s repeated action. The work is both the writing and the act of writing: the presence of the body in the space, the reiteration of the gesture, the relationship with the public and with the passage of time.
“Writing always saves me,” the artist notes on the first page of one of his recent notebooks. More than a statement, it is a sustained practice that runs through his work. In this process, the work brings into tension poetic dedication, logics of automation, and the experience of the body: an unstable balance between repetition, meaning, and necessity.
The residency thus proposes to accompany this process in its daily unfolding: the persistence of the gesture, the transformation of the space, the passage of the seasons. At this intersection between artistic practice and lived experience, the work opens as a question about labor, repetition, and the possibility of producing meaning today.
Credits Organized by Artistic Direction General Coordination Press Sponsored by
PROA21
Lucie Haguenauer
Renzo Longobucco
Pilar Victorio
Marina Gambier
Ana Clara Giannini
Alba Rodríguez Arranz
Leandro Vento
Tenaris – Ternium