Poetic Social Geometry

In Buenos Aires Faena Arts Center will house Augustina Woodgate’s interdisciplinary and site-specific work GPS / Geometry and Social Poetics.

Agustina Woodgate was born in Buenos Aires and has lived in the United States for over a decade.

Her work explores and encourages collective human encounters, rather than individual contemplation of produced objects.

Her interdisciplinary and site-specific work GPS / Social Poetic Geometry will burst out from the confines of the Cathedral Room, with performances and interventions in the public spaces surrounding the installation itself, where visitors will encounter ordinary objects worn down or altered to the point of being intriguingly unrecognizable.

FAC will host also the site-specific work Carousel by Russian artist Fyodor Pavlov-Andreevich, a spectacular circular stage divided into nine parts, which will be installed, for the first time, in FAC’s Los Molinos Room. As it revolves, the carousel unveils various individual performances, challenging the usual concept of space and time in the visual arts.

In his use of dizzying speed, which seeks to break the boundary of purely aesthetic experience, the artist pays homage to the Soviet movement known in the West as “Down with Shame,” which organized nudist marches and evenings in 1922 to sweep away bourgeois morality. His work spans various media and disciplines, delving into the relationship between the hidden and the conspicuous; emphasizing the communication between an artist and his public, and the role of rituals in the visual arts.

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