Archives on Bardo

Archivum Naturae

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Archivum Naturae brings together Ana Palacio and Andrea Nosetti in a reflection on the ways living organisms are transformed into archives, images, fragments, and reproducible structures.

Nature appears here not as an untouched landscape, but as a territory shaped by displacement, technological mediation, extraction, and survival. Birds from southern Latin America and digitally reproduced insects become traces of ecosystems under pressure, suspended between preservation and disappearance.

Two approaches to the natural archive

In her series YAJNA, Ana Palacio works with images of birds whose habitats have been altered by human intervention. Adopting the visual language of documents and scientific records, the works consider ecological imbalance as well as the violence embedded in observation, classification, and possession.

Eclipse de Kreeh: Selk’nam Archive

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Eclipse de Kreeh: Selk’nam Archive was an immersive installation by Violeta Maluendres González, co-curated with Carla Andrade. It unfolds as a living archive exploring the memory, rituals, and worldview of the Selk’nam people of Tierra del Fuego, whose culture was nearly erased through colonial violence.

Taking the work of anthropologist Anne Chapman as a point of departure, the installation transforms archival research into a participatory experience, inviting visitors to engage with documents, images, sound, objects, and materials.

PINECENE: In the Wake of a Plunder

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

PINECENE: In the Wake of a Plunder (PINOCENO: Tras el rastro de un despojo, desde Alemania al Sur) traces the entanglements between colonialism, extractivism, and transnational histories through pine plantations in the southern territories of Argentina and Chile, in Wallmapu—the ancestral land of the Mapuche people.

The pine appears as a living archive: both witness and intruder. Introduced as part of extractive economies, it reveals processes of land appropriation, monoculture, and the transformation of ecosystems into industrial infrastructures.

Topographies of Memory

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Topographies of Memory brings together two practices that engage with displacement, materiality, and embodied experience. Curated by Ayelén Ruiz, the exhibition unfolds as a dialogue between Carla Abilés and Paula Punto through textiles, archives, writing, and performance, approaching memory as a territory in constant transformation.

Carla Abilés works across textile practices and research-based processes, exploring collective memory, migration, and material knowledge rooted in the Global South. Paula Punto develops a multidisciplinary practice spanning performance, photography, and writing, where personal experience becomes a site for political and historical inquiry.