In 1967, an Argentine publishing house released three pocket-sized books with photographic images. The project involved, among other figures, photographers Grete Stern and Humberto Rivas, artist Rogelio Polesello, and critic Jorge Romero Brest. The three publications form the concise catalog of the Buenos Aires editorial: an incomplete program that multiplies its limitations in the attempt to create a collection. If every collection aims to restore a totality, the three titles from the Buenos Aires editorial seek, in different directions, to gather the likeness of things, attempting to complete their presence with the gesture of a register that aspires to be transparent. What does it mean to reproduce an object? What are the nuances of this attempt to capture a thing in its fullness? Like the collection, each image fails in its attempt to cover a totality that is always assumed to be external to it. With likeness as the territory, the exhibition invites you to traverse the various inflections of this downfall, measuring the interval that opens up each time between photography and the object.
In collaboration with Juan Cruz Pedroni
72 photographs taken from original books
8x12 cm each one. 2018
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