Deforestation/La Floresta: Territories in Polyphony
As part of the Bicentennial of Brazil's Independence, the exhibition unfolds at the Cultural Space of the Pereda Palace – Embassy of Brazil in Buenos Aires, and at El Obrador Creative Center in 2022.

Mariana Rodríguez Iglesias, curator of the exhibition, expresses:
"In line with the logic of rendering a dormant time visible through artistic endeavor, we approach María Emilia Marroquín's work, La Floresta. This piece is not just a disciplinary expansion of drawing and sculpture but also an emotional landscape where reflection and action occurred simultaneously with the invention of a language. When words fall short of naming what we experience, because it overwhelms us, because it's too daunting, because it's frightening, verbal language reveals itself for what it truly is: a tool, just one among many; a convention of use, clearly deficient. The artist was doing, resolving the anguish of uncertainty through her work and, in doing so, processing with her own language. She turned to her body but also to the modulation of a wire line or the fierce rubbing of charcoal against the wall, capturing organic elements in space, building a haze, an ominous atmosphere, a storm between the artificial and the natural. And while the world learned to coexist with the flu or came to a standstill entirely, the news María Emilia saw on television depicted the fires and destruction of green areas in the country. This painful event also entered the set of occurrences she chose to process through her work, attempting to add another layer of understanding – poetic – about the intricate relationship between nature and culture."

Territories in Polyphony. Exhibition of 13 South American artists.
Cultural Space of Pereda Palace, Embassy of Brazil, Bicentenary 2022.
Curatorship Mariana Rodríguez Iglesias, 2022

Territories in Polyphony catalogue
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Deforestation/La Floresta: Territories in Polyphony

As part of the Bicentennial of Brazil's Independence, the exhibition unfolds at the Cultural Space of the Pereda Palace – Embassy of Brazil in Buenos Aires, and at El Obrador Creative Center in 2022.