A FLYING FOREST: JOAQUÍN SÁNCHEZ IN VIEDMA
Within the context of Pinta Sud | ASU 2024, Viedma gallery presents from August 6 the installation El Bosque que vuela: ficciones en torno a Ogwa (The Forest that flies: fictions around Ogwa) by the artist Joaquín Sánchez. It is curated by Adriana Almada.
El bosque que vuela (2023-2024) is a multimedia installation that brings together in one experience pieces of brass, basalt stone, gold thread embroidery, photographic printing on recycled cotton, ceremonial textile pieces and videos.
It is a large diorama that shows the human and daily life of the Chaco; it stages traditional myths of the Chamaçego people in the Chaco landscapes and its diverse fauna and flora. Community stories and personal histories meet in a forest where painted bodies move in a very slow time within mythical scenes based on stories of the ancestors. As in a scene from a movie, a character appears among the forest of the wild Chaco, in a soft choreographic movement to invoke the fruits, flowers and animals of the place. In this scenario of the "green hell" heterogeneous temporalities and places are presented, establishing a boundary between reality and fiction, between moments of the Chaco war, indigenous rituals and stories of Captain paintings, cacique Chamacoco.
Adriana Almada, the curator of the exhibition, states: "Joaquín Sánchez's work is rooted in his early connection with the traveling cinema with which his grandfather used to tour the rural communities of Paraguay. This experience shaped a creative process that, although it unfolds in installations, objects, performances, and video art, always ascribes to a cinematographic narrative..."
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Joaquín Sánchez _El Bosque que vuela _2023- 2024 _Instalación multimedia. Latón, piedra basáltica, bordado en hilos de oro, impresión fotográfica sobre algodón reciclado, piezas textiles ceremoniales, video. _Dimensiones variables
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Joaquín Sánchez _El Bosque que vuela _2023- 2024 _Instalación multimedia. Latón, piedra basáltica, bordado en hilos de oro, impresión fotográfica sobre algodón reciclado, piezas textiles ceremoniales, video. _Dimensiones variables(1)
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Joaquín Sánchez _El Bosque que vuela _2023- 2024 _Instalación multimedia. Latón, piedra basáltica, bordado en hilos de oro, impresión fotográfica sobre algodón reciclado, piezas textiles ceremoniales, video. _Dimensiones variables(2)
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Joaquin Sanchez .El Bosque que vuela. 2023. 1000x300cm Instalacion - Capital Creativo
Joaquín Sánchez was born in Paraguay in 1977. He has been living in Bolivia for 20 years, telling stories through photography, sculpture, video, performance and film, under an alternative artistic gaze that never stops.
He always starts his work from an image, even if the image is a word.
As a child, he was an assistant in his grandfather's traveling cinema that toured the rural communities of Paraguay. Since then he has had a deep connection with the moving image. He is interested in family chronicles, personal memory and small stories that migrate towards collective narratives.
El bosque que vuela: ficciones en torno a Ogwa. Installation by Joaquín Sánchez.
Viedma Art. Denis Roa 768, Asuncion, Paraguay.
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