Mónica Heller, Argentine Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale

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The video installation that Mónica Heller exhibits in the Argentine Pavilion of the 59th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale immerses us in a sensory landscape that shocks our perception of reality and invites us to question ourselves about the limits of the body, imagination and cognitive of the human, in times dominated by the suspicion of its decline as a civilizational paradigm.

The characters that Heller has given life to in each of the exhibited pieces come from a very personal and artisan matrix with which she questions the symbolic world that surrounds her. Products of an anthropomorphism that subsumes the animate and the inanimate until they become indistinguishable, these characters seem to emerge from the same source from which the beings that populate both dream life and children's fables spring.

Continuing the critical impulse that encouraged surrealism, Heller's 3D animations build a cast of paradoxical and absurd situations in which humor, the abject, social satire and metaphysical spatiality come together. Its protagonists, locked within infinite time loops, repeat cycles of actions through which they build, disarm and rise again. 

The origin of the substance will matter the importance of the origin offers, in this way, an insistent choreography that rejects any form of narrative unity. A landscape of vibrant iterations in which both the neurotic recurrence of the .gif format and the repetition used by different avant-garde currents of the 20th century resonate to expose the public's sensitivity to the possibility of emancipatory escape.

The exhibition is displayed throughout the pavilion in 13 independent audiovisual modules, made up of projections and LED screens of different dimensions. The installation is completed by a surround sound design and an ambient light setting. In an unprecedented way, in addition, the catalog of the exhibition has the participation of fellow artists, writers and writers, turning it into an autonomous work of an experimental and collective nature that expands the possibilities of representing current Argentine art.