T​he Wrong Material

It implies to work with matter (and not on it, neither to inform it, give it sense nor metaphorize it): it implies becoming a hybrid machine with matter, a seismograph that registers and empowers the tremors of encounters. We encourage to focus on a non-inert materiality and on an ontology of bodies constructed, connected and extended without teleological criteria. Perhaps we might as well be promoting the fantasy of some sort of (non-romantic, non-symbolic) re-enchantment of the world that could share out sensibility and responsiveness throughout existence, interrupting “human” hierarchies. Expressions anthropocentrism are not to be found exclusively in representations of the human, but primarily in the being-for-the-man orientation of everything that exists, either in terms of social, community or affective connections, or to condemn threats to human life. We would like to take a chance on matter literalness rather than on its metaphors.


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T​he Wrong Material


Curated by Colectiva Materia
Noelia Billi, Paula Fleisner & Guadalupe Lucero

Featured artists
Mariana Corral and Sebastián Hacher
Toia Bonino
Andrea Salomé Lancheros Fajardo
Mercedes Invernizzi Oviedo and Laura Fuchs
María Carmín Santos and Ayelén Cabadas García
Asdrúbal Gómez
Luciano Paris
Maia Lesca and Celestial Brizuela
Dulcinea Segura Rattagan
Emilia Alvarez



ATAM Pavilion
Universidad Nacional de las Artes
Azcuénaga 1129
Buenos Aires
Argentina