Made with materials gathered in the park. A continuous horizon runs across the works in the room, created by letting water mixed with earth and ash run down the paper.
Teresa Pereda
My initial contact with each of the places is walking, as a way of linking water and land with the horizon. I enter, in turn, underground territories that I cannot see, but whose existence I can verify in various ways, "see" the earth and water with my intuition and perceive them, since they are bodies that emit magnetism or radiation. I listen to the material and its resonances.
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Between HorizonsTeresa Pereda · Earth, ash, water, natural fibers and paper · Site-specific installation
Made with materials gathered in the park. A continuous horizon runs across the works in the room, created by letting water mixed with earth and ash run down the paper.
Works at Bellatrix
When we think of Teresa, we think of texture and earth. She gathered elements from the Bellatrix park to create her site-specific installation “Entre horizontes” (Between Horizons). Her wisdom is passed on to natural fibers, to earth and to paper. There is something mystical about her work. The perfect horizon that runs from frame to frame on the main wall of the room is striking; it was made with a technique of letting water mixed with earth and ash run down the surface.
In the artist’s words
Aguamansa. A commitment to the surroundings.
The humid Pampas spill over Aguamansa.
Art and humankind.
Nature and art.
I observe the environment. I half-close my eyes. I blink. The backlight dazzles. Outlines blur. Opposing realities emerge. I walk my own essence as man and woman.
The earth calls me. I embody an experience and share my place on that ground. It is about creating a space where the hours can empty out.
I connect my body to the landscape. A ritual space. This is the meaning of the aesthetic experience I propose. I try to share what I have learned over years of journeys. I contemplate, I connect, I move through. I am.
First gathering of earth at Aguamansa.
Biography
Teresa Pereda (Buenos Aires, 1956). Artist and researcher. She specializes in Indigenous ethnography in the context of the processes of mestizaje and re-ethnicization under way on American soil. Her main research subjects are art, symbolism and Indigenous worldviews. In the early 1990s she began using earth to build an aesthetic that deepens her poetics through the bond between humankind and the land. She undertook a series of journeys and actions to gather and exchange soils from different regions of Argentina and the Americas, which gave rise to the projects Itinerario de un país (Itinerary of a Country, 1994-2006) and Recolección - restitución. Citas por América (Gathering - Restitution. Meetings across America, ongoing since 2007), including installations, performance, artist’s books, photography and video. She has maintained a constant commitment to seeking understanding with Indigenous peoples. Her close ties with the Indigenous world began at a very early age, when she collaborated on a study of nine rogation ceremonies (Nguillatun) still held in the province of Neuquén in the 1970s. She works as a researcher and curator for the Hijos del Viento collection of ethnographic objects. For the past ten years she has been involved from a more personal commitment, and she is now a member of the Lof Vicente Catrunao Pincén.