Eduardo T. Basualdo, Nina Canell and SofiaHultén at Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo /MOUSSE CONTEMPORARY ART MAGAZINE

by mousse, moussemagazine.it September 14

Galeria Luisa Strina presents three exhibitions by Eduardo T. Basualdo, Nina Canell and Sofia Hultén

Eduardo T. Basualdo: Testigo

The link is an element that functions within a group. Here, outside its chain, without any function and isolated, it illustrates andpersonifies the state of uncertainty of those who will go through the tests of the installation “Testigo” [Witness] by Argentine artistEduardo T. Basualdo. If we think of ourselves as links in a larger chain, we understand that the only way to see it is by being outside ofit.

Conceived especially for the main room of Galeria Luisa Strina, “Testigo” is inspired by the initiation rites of primitive societies andpresents a set of seven large-format artworks made up of walls, steel grids and mirrors, which, like a series of tests, is imposed alongthe extensive room, inviting the spectators to move through it with their bodies in search of transformation, in a process where theystop being protagonists and become witnesses, not only of their own condition but of the circumstances of this specific period inwhich we are living.

at Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brasil

Above – Eduardo T. Basualdo, Cruz, 2013

La noche en mitad del día [The night in the middle of the day], 2013

Mar Abierto [Open Sea], 2013

Mi casa (es tu casa), 2013

Gemelos. Tiempo y metal [Twins. Time and metal], 2013

La caída [The fall], 2013

Deus ex machina, 2013

Nina Canell

Nina Canell’s installations bring together objects that interact with each other through modest arrangements. Electrical debris, wiresand neon gas establish sculptural and nearly performative links with natural materials such as water, wood or stones. Her search for

sculpture exists somewhere between the material and the immaterial, forming and questioning the conductive relations between thesolid objects and mental events.

Strays, 2013

Glances, 2013

Weightless Wood, 2013

Bell’s Bruise, 2013

Forgotten Curves, 2013

Forgotten Curves, 2013

Sofia Hultén

As a student of sculpture in England in the early 1990s Sofia Hultén was influenced by the idea of sculpture as an expandable mediumwith a great performative potential.

For Galeria Luisa Strina, Sofia has prepared a series of four works, including videos and sculptures. More interested in changing thestate of existence of the ready-made material with which she works than necessarily creating new objects, Hultén incorporates time inher work as an intelligible element in videos, photographs and sculptures that capture the lifecycle of these objects. The importantthing in her practice is not to arrive at the final destination – the art object – by means of the shortest path, but rather by a windingroute through the labyrinth of possibilities, which for the artist is a process of unforeseeability.

As yet untitled, 2013

As yet untitled, 2013

Altered Fates, 2013

Courtesy of Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brasil