From April 15th to August 8th

Artists: Fikret Atay (SWE),  Gianfranco Botto y Roberta Bruno (ITA),  Jordi Colomer (ESP), Marcelino Melo (BRA), Leticia Obeid (ARG), Silvia Rivas (ARG),  Aimée Zito Lema (NDL)

Books by María Elena Walsh (ARG) | Walsh-Facio Foundation.

Curated by: Diana Wechsler

 

Image: Jordi Colomer, Medina Parkour, 2024

Today, the word “childhood” refers to the period of childhood. However, this was not always the case. The concept of childhood has evolved over the centuries to become a distinct stage of human life, clearly differentiated from adulthood.

We never definitively leave childhood behind; we are never entirely adults: there is no human life without childhood, asserts Giorgio Agamben. Childhood is a singular time, Francois Lyotard would say, one that is experienced more than in a chronological sense.

It is at this intersection of ideas that this exhibition takes root: in the paradoxical condition of childhoods, one that allows us to navigate experiences from unexpected relative positions where imagination, fantasy narratives, and play come into play.

Diana Wechsler