This sound sculpture emerges from an immersive experience in the Matanza-Riachuelo Basin, the most polluted river in Latin America. The journey through its waters and shores shaped the creative process, guiding the capture of images and sounds that document a landfill landscape artificially constructed over decades of accumulation sedimentation.
Rather than beautifying environmental devastation, the work seeks to foster awareness and a deeper connection with this endangered ecosystem. Through detailed observation of its forms, textures, and sounds, it makes visible the complexity of this reality and its ecological impact.
The result is a large-scale wooden sculpture composed of interwoven layers that evoke the geological strata and accumulated waste of the basin. Its fragmented structure reflects the chaotic superposition of the territory, while its sonic composition gives it a voice of its own.
Within its vibrations resonate the testimony of a wounded space, the helplessness in the face of irreversible pollution, and the resilience of the organisms that continue to inhabit this shifting landscape.
The title, Argentoratum, alludes to the historical relationship between humankind and territory, connecting times and geographies through the materiality that persists throughout the planet’s geological history.
Exhibition within the framework of the art and technology program “Presente Continuo“, 2024
“Presente Continuo” is a training, production and international exchange program for thinkers, curators, artists, researchers
in exact sciences, social sciences and humanities, scientists and technologists.
Program organized by the Williams Foundation and the Bunge & Born Foundation and with the support of the Andreani
Foundation and the Cultural Center
ARGENTORATUM
Project by METACOSTA