“NO ENCHANTED GARDEN”: LATIN AMERICAN TEAM FOR JUSTICE AND GENDER AT ARTEBA 2026

Among the projects presented at arteba, Arte al Día highlights that of ELA, for its vision of art as a space to rethink social transformations and the care that sustains them over time.

For the third consecutive year, the Equipo Latinoamericano de Justicia y Género (ELA) is part of the arteba program, the most important art fair in Latin America, taking place at La Rural (Buenos Aires) from October 30 to November 1. Curated by Guadalupe Arriefue and Belén Coluccio, the NGO, which has promoted gender equality for more than 20 years, presents Ningún jardín encantado (No Enchanted Garden), featuring works by Cinthia Rched, Club de Arte Secundaria Técnica UNSAM, Florencia Breccia, Guido Yannitto, Jardín Cooperativa La Montañita J.L. Suárez, Julia Levstein, Marina Daiez, Martín Legón, Nicola Costantino, Virginia Buitrón, and Tataypi (Collective of Women Weavers of Paraguay)) together with Mónica Millán.

Works from different disciplines grow in the fair’s garden-stand: ceramics by Costantino and the Club de Arte de la Secundaria Técnica, cyanotypes by the Jardín Cooperativa La Montañita, textiles by Tataypi, paintings by Breccia, and Levstein’s video, among others. The proposal is to create a living space, an ecosystem of multiple stories, secrets, beauties, and mysteries that is not exhausted in a fixed form. Its garden-like nature keeps it an active landscape that can be observed, pruned, and cared for.

“Sometimes we look at the world we live in as if it had always been this way. But many of the things that are part of our daily lives today are the result of decisions, efforts, and transformations that took generations. Ningún jardín encantado invites us to recover that history, to ask ourselves what we want to preserve of what we have achieved and what we need to change so that life is better for everyone,” says Natalia Gherardi, executive director of ELA.

The organization extends its work into the realm of art. With the exhibition, they invite us to reflect on social transformations, which do not happen out of inertia. Change is the result of stories, decisions, visible and invisible work, bonds, and care sustained over time.

The curatorial text draws on a quote from Argentine poet Diana Bellesi’s He construido un jardín: “The garden kills and asks to be killed in order to be a garden. But making the right gestures in the wrong place dissolves the equation, uncovers wasteland.” In the poem, flowers die and are renewed, and are pruned as well. A garden that demands that its gardener watch it die. A garden that is one. A garden that is observed, thought through, that is one. Ningún jardín encantado.

About ELA
The Equipo Latinoamericano de Justicia y Género is a feminist civil society organization that, for more than 20 years, has conducted research, produced knowledge, and driven proposals to improve people’s lives. Over time, it has carried out more than 140 studies, 400 training sessions, 30 strategic litigation cases, 100 public policies evaluated and promoted, 15 public interest campaigns, and 10 established organizations.

During arteba, Usted está aquí, ELA’s book, will be available for free download. Through data, illustrations, and everyday stories, it shows how work, families, relationships, and opportunities have changed in Argentina.