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archival sighs (suspiros archivados)
an evolving installation with ~300 jars and their contents, 1998- 2009
photographs, plants, seeds, brunches, acrylic
Curatorial text by Tamara Toledo
Suspiros Archivados carries multiple stories, indulges our senses and nostalgically marks territory through a repetitious sequence of portraits of approximately 300 people from Buenos Aires, Cuzco, Lima, Vancouver and Toronto.
The multi-layered altarpiece installation, spaced throughout four encased vitrines, shows us the artist's travels and adaptation through life journeys, refracted through an offering of homage to individuals who have shared the space she once inhabited. The artist offers a testimony, a reconstruction of a mausoleum, time for retrieval, a voice given to the unheard, and a space for commemoration.
Buzio, a Toronto-based Argentinean artist, has been working since 1999 on this project, collecting objects indicative of fragmented collective imaginaries. Transparent containers allude to the air once breathed and the water navigated, and the plants and seeds placed in each offer a recuperation of souls. The multi-layered altarpiece installation, spaced throughout four encased vitrines, shows us the artist’s travels and adaptation through life journeys, refracted through an offering of homage to individuals who have shared the space she once inhabited.
It is impossible to witness Suspiros Archivados without noticing a connection to the political context of Buzio’s homeland. Marked by a military dictatorship, Argentina has faced an incessant mournful process while attempting to find the whereabouts of their disappeared. Similar to the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo who carry the portraits of their missing husbands, daughters and sons, Buzio identifies the need of presence within a history of absence. She contains their memory, offers invigorating color and provides oxygen for their survival.
Suspiros Archivados is an ongoing quest to see ourselves reflected in others, to search for objects that attach us to a place, to be part of a whole and to slow down time. The artist offers a testimony, a reconstruction of a mausoleum, time for retrieval, a voice given to the unheard, and a space for commemoration.
A Space Gallery- 2008
Corriente Alterna, Lima. 2000
Taller de Manuel, Cusco, Peru. 1999
Galeria Roberto Martin, Buenos Aires, Argentina1998
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