Naming Rivers, Gargling

From March 12th to May 15th

 

Artists: Jimena Croceri, Sarina Scheidegger

Curatorial work: Lucrecia Palacios

 

With the participation of: Igne Argento, Franziska Baumgartner, Guillermina Etkin, Agustín Genoud, Malena Ríos Itoiz, Carla Guida Johnson, Kambiz Shafei, Sofía Isabel Martínez, Yamila Mendez, Belara Michán, Ariane Moyano, Sebastián Rey, Barbara Togander

 

Production: Patricia Pedraza

 

The project Naming Rivers, Gargling is a long-lasting collaborative performance by artists Jimena Croceri (Argentina, 1981) and Sarina Scheidegger (Switzerland, 1985). They propose a performative and musical practice that explores the inherent fluidity of our bodies and their connection with the seas, glaciers, rivers, and the bodies of others. During the performance, the participants engage in different actions both individually and collectively in which their bodies are linked to each other and to the water, producing movements and sounds that reveal the organic, identitary and political relationship that we have with water.

In the second hall, individual projects by the artists are integrated into the exhibition, thus revealing their previous research in relation to water politics. Croceri presents a series of subtle drawings in which she immerses paper in the Riachuelo so that the muddy water marks the paper and draws on it as it seeps through. In turn, Scheidegger’s linographs represent clepsydrae or water clocks, an ancient way of measuring time through the movement and decantation of fluids.

The performance is a version of the series of experiences the artists have been conducting in which they poetically revisit several of the ideas addressed in the book Bodies of Water by the Australian philosopher Astrida Neimanis. In this book, Neimanis reminds us that 80% of our body is made up of water. Before becoming part of us, this element was part of other organisms, of seas, of rainfall, and will do likewise again when it leaves us. Neimanis understands that this information places humanity immediately within nature and as part of it. The philosopher says that understanding this oceanic sense of belonging relocates us to be able to think about the environmental and social challenges that define our contemporaneity.

 

Lucrecia Palacios

 

JIMENA CROCERI AND SARINA SCHEIDEGGER
Naming Rivers, Gargling, 2022. Performance. Ceramics, wood, fabric, water, texts and sounds. 120 min

 

SARINA SCHEIDEGGER
Water Thieves, 2019-present. 30 linographs. Ink on acid-free paper. 29.5 cm x 21 cm each

Collaborating Waters, 2021. Publication and vinyl. 56 pages. 31 cm x 23.5 cm

JIMENA CROCERI 
Drawing with the Riachuelo, 2021. 6 drawings. Natural inks on filter paper. 59.3 cm x 59.6 cm each

Strong and Soft, 2015-2021. Installation. Cardboard boxes and water. Variable size

Book of Waves, 2020-2021. Book object. 65 cm x 113 cm opened

Tidal Drawing, 2019. VSD H264 colour video, stereo, loop