TRANSITORY BOUNDARIES: THE LIMITS OF SPACE, OBJECTS AND IDENTITY.

The Argentine Ambassador's residence in London opens to the public as the setting for the exhibition Transitory Boundaries. From September 14 to 22, 2024, the embassy is transformed into a space for artistic reflection where four Argentine artists explore the distances and connections between the private and the public, the domestic and the urban.

The exhibition, curated by Federika Chaimowicz, Carolina Orlando, Mora Pranteda and Pilar Seivane, presents works that interact with each other and with the particular context of the house-embassy. This combination reflects the very nature of the embassy: a space full of intertwined meanings between countries.

In the garden of the residence, Untitled by Ignacio Unrrein focuses on urban facades, inspired by his project Tapiar Buenos Aires, which investigates the walls and barriers that transform the architecture of his hometown (Buenos Aires). In his intervention at the residence, Unrrein transfers the idea of the wall -a barrier that hides but also protects- to a London context.

Martín Cordiano, on the other hand, intervenes in the interior space of the residence with a series of decontextualized furniture. In his work Host, domestic objects become motifs for contemplation. Through this exercise, Cordiano suggests new ways of inhabiting one's home, endowing the furniture with a ritualistic dimension that invites to reflect on how spaces and objects affect us.

Sara Sahores explores the reappropriation of historical images in her work On Stealing 1. Sahores takes fragments of baroque works and reinserts them into the present, challenging the traditional role of the photographer as a distant observer. In her work, she questions the male gaze that has predominated in the history of art, especially in the portrayal of the female body. By positioning herself from a critical perspective, Sahores dialogues not only with the images she selects, but also with the embassy as a space charged with historical meanings and power.

Mariela Vita presents an installation that plays with the idea of animism, where objects acquire an aura and are perceived as living entities. In her work, Vita combines Japanese and Argentine cultural references, creating a map of objects. Her work connects with the duality of the embassy, a place where different identities and narratives converge.