CAPORALETTI AND POLAK BRING THE ATACAMA AND THE DELTA TO LONDON
A Levitating Territory, which opened at Filet Space, brings together paintings and photographs by Argentine artists that explore the body and the invisible.
Artists Majo Caporaletti (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1986) and Vicky Polak (Buenos Aires, Argentina) opened A Levitating Territory at Filet Space gallery in London this Wednesday. The show, curated by Adela Blanco, brings together oil paintings and black-and-white photographs that develop distinct yet interrelated approaches to territory, the body, and the invisible.
Each artist's starting point is geographically opposite: Caporaletti's paintings stem from her experience in the Atacama Desert — where she took part in the Reimagine Futures residency, invited by La Wayaka Current (United Kingdom) in 2025 — while Polak's photographs inhabit the aquatic world of the Delta islands on the shores of the Río de la Plata. That tension between arid land and moving water is what, according to Blanco's curatorial text, generates a sense of lightness in the room: "when this opposing force disappears, matter levitates."
In Caporaletti's paintings, the Atacama landscape is not about faithful documentation — photography served that archival function during the trip. Painting, instead, operates as an emotional return to the space. Her canvases gather two opposing forces to provoke an explosion of matter, invoking allegories of dissolution, change, and rebirth. "I paint to digest what gets stuck in my throat, what cuts from the inside — to make visible what has no shape, what I cannot name," the artist said.
Polak's images, made through double exposure, introduce movement and fluidity that complement the earthly density of the paintings. The relationship between the two artists has a prior history: Polak has photographed Caporaletti in her studio, and Caporaletti has posed as a model for Polak. "There is something very natural in our relationship, because for years we have inhabited each other's universe," Polak explained.
A Levitating Territory proposes a dialogue between materials, geographies, and techniques that, far from canceling each other out, amplify one another within a shared space.
The exhibition is on view through June 21 at Filet Space, 103 Murray Grove, London, United Kingdom.
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