Senderos(Paths), 2014
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.
Alexandra Kehayoglou (Buenos Aires, 1981) is a visual artist who develops large format sculptures on textile supports. Her artwork includes a catalogue of memories of different native landscapes that the artist has travelled and wants to preserve fromthe passage of time. Her pastures, paddocks, shelters, and tapestries are presented as sublime realities of which the viewer can participate through contemplation and the use of the piece itself.