Mutant Garden, drawings by Guadalupe Silva
Opening event Saturday, October 18, 4-7 pm
Mutant Garden is Guadalupe Silva 's first solo exhibition in Galería Mar Dulce, featuring a series of 15 new drawings in graphite on paper.
"Where does this garden come from? Looking back, I think it comes from curiosity and a taste for strange things. When I was a girl, I amused myself by reading encyclopedias, because you can wander through them without order and they gather everything in the same book, no matter how big or small the subject, how modern or ancient, distinguished or insignificant; the good and the bad words sit side by side with the same dignity. Once I came across a book with this funny title: Silva de varia lección. It was funny to me because it referred to my last name, and because it was a truly delirious miscellany (that sixteenth-century text could be considered a forerunner of the encyclopedia, before Reason took hold). Silva is a jungle, a place crowded with trees and interwoven organisms. I think that this is the beginning of it all. A mutant garden is a space without order, where the strangest things coexist in unusual relations. And that is what this garden is: the place where differences cohabit, a cultivated jungle, a curious world." Guadalupe Silva
"They certainly move. Those flowers and those fruits, those leaves, the nests and the worms, clinging to the branches, detach themselves from the eye that contemplates them. They slide. They precipitate. We do not know where to; the fragment invokes an unknown depth, one that exceeds the figures and imagines them in a total jungle. In one corner, a dragonfly, in another, a butterfly. Slime and vines fall and fly. They give counterweight and twist to the botanical primacy, which traps us. We want to touch that graphite flesh, to bite it. The matter of these flowers is the desire to grow and move. Further outward, further upward. The unusual gathering of the rose with the fig tree, of the pineapple with the calla lily sprouting from the same stem, makes us smile. Guadalupe Silva’s mutant garden respects neither destinies nor classifications; it mingles and makes the exotic and the wild sprout. In its excess, the species is but an instant, a heartbeat, a flexion." Irina Garbatzky
Guadalupe Silva was born in Bahía Blanca, Argentina, in 1973. She is a visual artist and cultural researcher. She studied in the studios of Lula Mari, Diana Aisenberg, Miguel Ángel Bengochea, and Rafael Martín, with whom she trained in sculpture. She has presented the solo exhibitions Ferabunda (Laboratorio, Buenos Aires, 2024), Souvenirs de un país desconocido (C. C. Paco Urondo, Buenos Aires, 2022), and Limbo (Museo Casa Sarmiento, Tigre, 2018). She was a member of the artist collective Las Muchas (2015–2020, 2025). She has exhibited in several national salons (Macsur, Manuel Belgrano, Banco Provincia). As a researcher, she focuses on Latin American literature and art, and she is a member of CONICET’s research career. In 2022 she took part in the PAC program for contemporary artists at Gachi Prieto Gallery, and in 2023 she attended El Oráculo, a training program of Proyecto Púrpura (2024–2025). She lives and works in Buenos Aires.
Galería Mar Dulce specializes in small and medium-sized paintings, drawings, prints, artists´ books, and objects by classic and contemporary River Plate artists. Along with the main exhibition we present +COLLECTIVE92, a curated collection of works by other gallery artists and guests, including Alejandro Pasquale, Isol, Diego Ontivero , Laura Romano, Paz Tamburrini and Patricia Tewel.
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