Actividades

Hernán Camoletto at Parque de la Memoria

From July 6 to October 12, 2025, the exhibition “La imagen abierta” by Hernán Camoletto was presented at the Parque de la Memoria – Monument to the Victims of State Terrorism (Av. Costanera Norte Rafael Obligado 6745, Buenos Aires).

The exhibition explored how human beings connect and build emotional networks within a social context marked by growing individualism. Far from adopting a pessimistic view, Camoletto sought to bring together and reassemble what has been fractured as a gesture of transforming the present, inviting reflection on new ways of creating community.

Through drawing, painting, installation, and performance, the artist examined the relationship between image and word, memory, death, and the links between the individual and the collective. His practice is characterized by the use of techniques such as layering, repetition, and the combination of diverse materials, generating multiple layers of meaning that unfolded throughout the exhibition.

In La imagen abierta, Camoletto revisited a classical motif in art history —the flower vase— as a metaphor for contemporary societies, where beauty and decay, the natural and the manufactured, the offering and the ornamental coexist.

The large-format drawings originated from bouquets arranged by friends, later photographed and sent to the artist. Each vase became a reinterpretation of these collective compositions, forming a new “communal” vase that weaves an affective network evoking unity and belonging.

The exhibition also featured the site-specific installation Ensamble, which established a direct dialogue with the Monument to the Victims of State Terrorism and emerged from research on Los muertos del Magdalena in Colombia.

La imagen abierta was a project produced by the Parque de la Memoria, under the General Directorate of Human Rights of the Ministry of Justice of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires.