This exhibition is the result of a collaboration between Bárbara Sánchez-Kane and Sofía Alazraki (Buenos Aires, 1991), whose starting point was an exchange of intimate letters between friends. Love letters in unusual formats, like throwing a dart from one end of the world to the other.
At first, the photographs evoke an exquisite corpse: sculptures assembled without a rational order, where intuition takes precedence. At times, they look like little Frankensteins sewn together from foreign fragments to give life to strange creatures; at other times, they display the absurd humour of collage, where the juxtaposition of opposites generates laughter. They are also erotic cyborgs, bearers of their creators' fetishes. Composed of second-hand objects, these pieces interrogate their history and the fate that awaits them. Both artists play with religious, lesbian, and fashion symbols, reinventing them in their works.
Like the recycled materials that make them up, the photographs document the evolution of the bond between Sánchez-Kane and Alazraki. The result of a creative love in constant metamorphosis, an act of shedding ego to build a common universe. Here, authorship is diluted, but the work only makes sense thanks to the presence of both of them.
Text by Guillermo Osorno