Ana Segovia presents a project specially conceived for the Fundación Cervieri Monsuárez space, combining painting, installation and performance. The exhibition focuses on the archetypal gaucho figure to explore and question how the gaze is formed.
The exhibition brings together a series of recent paintings inspired by two short documentaries produced in the United States during the 1940s and 1950s as part of the so-called "Good Neighbor Policy". These films offered a simplified and stereotypical view of Latin America, equating its landscapes and iconic figures with typical American cinematic imagery. Notably, the gaucho is depicted in the style of a Western cowboy, thereby obscuring his historical, social, and territorial associations.
Segovia reinterprets these cinematic scenes in relation to the local landscape and Uruguayan planism's pictorial tradition, particularly Petrona Viera's (Montevideo, 1895–1960) chromatic sensibility and formal economy.
The project is completed with a sound installation that will be activated through performances on January 5, 6, and 7, developed in collaboration with the INAE (Instituto Nacional de Artes Escénicas), under the Ministry of Education and Culture of Uruguay.
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