THREE PERSPECTIVES THAT EXPAND PHOTOGRAPHY AT PINTA BAPHOTO 2025

Pinta BAphoto 2025, taking place from October 16 to 19 at La Rural in Buenos Aires, celebrates its 21st edition, reaffirming its position as the most relevant photography-focused art fair in Latin America. With a program that brings together diverse perspectives and practices, this year’s edition is organized into three main sections: the Main Section, featuring a wide range of galleries showcasing modern and contemporary artists whose practices are intertwined with the language of photography; RADAR, curated by Guad Creche, dedicated to performance and photoperformance; and NEXT | Fuera de foco, which highlights emerging and independent projects exploring photography as a space for experimentation. Complementing these is the Video Project, focused on moving image and critical reflection.

Among the numerous proposals presented this year, three projects stand out for their conceptual depth and for the ways in which each—through different geographies and sensibilities—expands the limits of the photographic medium.

Gustavo Nieto at Rusia Galería (NEXT | Fuera de foco)

Within the NEXT section, Rusia Galería —an independent space directed by the artist himself— presents a solo show by Gustavo Nieto, with all sales benefiting the Fundación para el Arte Contemporáneo, a nonprofit organization presided over by Nieto.

The project revisits three moments in the Tucumán-born artist’s career through a body of works that explore photography as a sensitive record of experience. Rather than traditional photographic works, these are experimental processes that seek to reveal “a stoic and beautiful dimension that, according to the artist, defines Latin homosexuality.”

Performance, citation, appropriation, and improvisation converge in a “photographic cocktail” presented together for the first time. The booth’s visual language recalls urban maximalism and the aesthetic of pre-digital clubs, bars, and adult cinemas. Among the featured works are Mural (2016), documenting an action in the artist’s teenage bedroom; three digital photographs from 2020; and an edition of an untitled 2008 series created using a camera-less photographic technique in black and white, combining 19th-century glass negatives with 21st-century magazine clippings, toys, and stickers.

Rusia Galería defines itself as a living organism that adapts to its context, conceiving the gallery practice as a creative and investigative process that energizes the local cultural scene.

Nicola Costantino at The White Lodge (RADAR)

In the RADAR section, The White Lodge presents a solo project by Nicola Costantino, one of the most prominent Argentine artists of her generation. The proposal centers on photoperformance, the main theme of the section, and recreates within the fair a room from her house-studio, where the artist gathers and displays much of her work.

Costantino, known primarily as a sculptor, has explored photography through the notion of the body as both record and representation. This project features historical photographs alongside recent sculptural pieces from her series of ceramic flowers, created using the Japanese narikomi technique. The installation establishes a dialogue between image and object, between the body represented in the photographs and the physical body of the sculpture.

Today, the artist’s commitment lies in creating beauty that inhabits our homes and everyday objects. The curatorial approach invites viewers to understand this commitment by entering Costantino’s domestic and artistic universe — a space where her work, her personal history, and her surroundings merge into a single visual narrative.

Donna Conlon in Video Project (Special Project)

American-born, Panama-based artist and biologist Donna Conlon participates in the Video Project with Fragile Shelters, curated by Irene Gelfman. The exhibition presents six video works that examine the relationship between humans and the natural world—a central concern throughout Conlon’s artistic practice.

Without resorting to direct denunciation, Conlon combines a scientific gaze with poetic sensitivity to expose the fragility of ecosystems and the contradictions of modern life. Works such as Presagio (2022), Los Maníferos (2021), and De las cenizas (2019) reveal nature’s resilience in the face of human impact. Together, the selected pieces create a contemplative landscape that underscores the vulnerability of natural environments and our shared responsibility toward them.

Donna Conlon’s participation is courtesy of Espacio Mínimo (Madrid) and Diablo Rosso (Panama City).

With proposals ranging from intimate introspection to ecological reflection, Pinta BAphoto 2025 reaffirms its position as a platform where photography and its expanded languages continue to open new ways of seeing—and thinking about—the world.

Pinta BAphoto 2025 – 21st Edition will be open to the public from October 16 to 19, 2025, at Pavilion 8, La Rural (Av. Sarmiento 2704, Buenos Aires, Argentina).