Curator: Mariano Mayer

"Interested more in the narrative provided by a specific set of images rather than in a particular image, Cecilia Szalkowicz presents in Room 2 of Fundación Larivière a support for hosting an exhibition and renewing our perspective on things.

In her dual role as both sculptor and architectural device, the unique form the artist has designed for the photographic exhibition Ideas fijas will allow for reflection on the act of exhibiting images and the ways of presenting them.

The timeless photographs produced by Cecilia Szalkowicz reveal the surprise that occurs in the act of looking. However, despite featuring some archetypal elements of studio photography, such as still lifes, her images expand the possible uses that photography can assume".

Mariano Mayer.

The piece was designed and developed by the artist in collaboration with Leticia Virguez and Gabriel Huarte from the Mater architectural studio.

The exhibition Idées fixes is part of the 19th International Architecture Biennial of Buenos Aires and is open to the public starting Saturday, October 5th.

Cecilia Szalkowicz (Buenos Aires, 1972) lives and works in Buenos Aires. She graduated from the University of Buenos Aires, where she also taught. She studied photography with Alberto Goldenstein (1994-1995), received the Kuitca scholarship (2003-2005), and was part of the teaching staff for the Artist Program at Torcuato Di Tella University. She was a member of the Suscripción collective (1999-2005). She participated in the CIFO Grants Program at the CIFO Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation; in the II Triennial of San Juan, Latin America and the Caribbean; and in the XII Cuenca Biennial. She carried out the Reunión (Buenos Aires-Berlin) project with Gastón Pérsico, Roman Schramm, and Hella Gerlach, supported by the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (IFA), and the Script publication, distributed for free, with Gastón Pérsico and Mariano Mayer. She has held numerous exhibitions in Argentina and abroad. Her most recent solo shows include Soy un disfraz de tigre (Photogallery of the Teatro San Martín, Buenos Aires, 2019), Tengo frío por los ojos (Para vos… Norma mía!, Buenos Aires, 2022), and Y ya no sé si es hoy, ayer o mañana (Galería María Casado, Buenos Aires, 2022). Among her group exhibitions are Un lento venir viniendo, Colección Oxenford, Chapter I (MAC Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, 2022) and Chapter II (Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, 2023), Beads (Stations, Berlin, 2023), Assemblage #23 / Perturbations temporelles (Julio Art Space, Paris, 2020), and Crear mundos (Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, 2020). She received the Braque Award in 2019 and the 8M Award in 2023. Her work is part of the collections at the Museum of Modern Art (Buenos Aires), Museo Castagnino+macro (Rosario), and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA, New York).

Portrait by Bruno Dubner.

Mariano Mayer (Buenos Aires, 1971) is a Spanish poet and independent curator born in Buenos Aires. He lives and works in Madrid. He is currently the curator of the Colección Oxenford. His projects include Un lento venir viniendo, Chapters I and II, Colección Oxenford (MAC Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, 2022 / Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, 2023), Amplitud de contexto (Sala Martindale, Buenos Aires, 2022), and Objeto de sí mismo (Sala Martindale, Buenos Aires, 2023). As an independent curator, his projects include Contradistancia by Prudencio Irazabal (MUSAC, León, 2024), Un eco después de un eco, un eco by Timsam Harding (Palacio de los Condes de Gabia, Granada, 2024), Táctica sintáctica by Diego Bianchi (Marres, Maastricht, 2023 and CA2M, Móstoles, 2022), Nunca lo mismo with Manuela Moscoso (ARCOmadrid, 2023-2022); PRELIBROS (ARCOmadrid-Casa de América, Madrid, 2021), Playing across Papers by Azucena Vieites (Sala Alcalá 31, Madrid, 2020), Distancias elásticas by Antonio Menchen and Cecilia Szalkowicz (Centro Párraga, Murcia, 2019), La música es mi casa by Gastón Pérsico (MALBA, Buenos Aires, 2017), and En el ejercicio de las cosas with Sonia Becce (Plataforma Argentina-ARCOmadrid, 2017). He has published, among others, the books Ir al motivo (Galería Elba Benítez, Madrid, 2023) and Fluxus escrito (Caja Negra, Buenos Aires, 2019).

This exhibition is supported by the Buenos Aires International Architecture Biennale, CCEBA, Acción Cultural Española (AC/E), Holstein, Mecenazgo, Bodega Catena Zapata and Sinteplast.