09.2019 - 03.2020 | Beneficiary of Collaborative Projects, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires

Voraz: An Exhibition on Processes, Errors, and Collaborative Work 

Voraz is a collective installation of graphic pieces that showcases not finished works but rather those that reveal the working process. Curated by Belén Machado and Matías Duarte, it reflects on creation processes, errors, sketches, and the back-and-forth inherent in each piece.

In this second edition, Voraz was selected by the Centro Cultural Recoleta for its “Collaborative Projects” initiative, presented in the exhibition titled: “Voraz: An Exhibition on Processes, Errors, and Collaborative Work.” (September 2019 - March 2020)

Participating are collectives of graphic artists dedicated to screen printing, engraving, self-publishing (zines), and risography (a high-speed digital printing system) that conducted experimental workshops based on various prompts. The works are now displayed in a way that recreates the spirit of those workshops, entirely dismissing the notion of art as a final product and focusing on the interwoven threads and narratives of how a piece comes to be.

Visitors will find four installations mounted on the wall, connected by a color palette and various conceptual devices. These are graphic productions that play with the working prompts and showcase reproduction techniques.

The participating collectives include La Nave Serigrafía, Ediciones El Fuerte, and Estampa Feminista, while illustrators Juan Puerto and Florencia Pernicone led the workshops attended by participants chosen through an open call. Their works form this exhibition, revealing what is usually left unseen.

The exhibition was inaugurated as part of the 21st Biennial of Young Art at CCR. During its first month of exhibition, a publication fair day was organized with 30 projects called by Proyecto Piranha, along with an open zine table comprised of those who attended the workshops during the pre-production phase.

The challenge of this edition was to devise premises that were feasible for all workshops within a short working timeframe, imparting craft knowledge to participants who were just starting and achieving a display format that would allow for the exhibition of this collective work.

Production + Creative Direction
Belén Machado

Co-production
Matías Duarte - Production team: Centro Cultural Recoleta

Workshops by Craft + Invited Artists divided into four modules:

— Risograph Workshop:  El Fuerte (Sofia Noceti Y Juan Casal) / Collage and Fake News Workshop: Iti El Hermoso.
Participantes Por Convocatoria Abierta: Lise Armand, Francisco Iurcovich, Natalia Magnus, Juan Manuel Sosa Vives (Jmsv).

— Silkscreening Workshop: La Nave Serigrafía (Analía Brown) + Artist: Florencia Pernicone.
Open Call Participants: Karina Aliaga, Nicolás Javier Caminoa Lizarralde, Florencia Foti, Irene Hoffman, Pía Olivares, Manuela Soto.

— Xilograph Workshop: Estampa Feminista (Noelia Mercanzini Y Paulx Castex).
Open Call Participants: Manón Dores, Antonia Elicer, Florencia Infante, Josefina García Nasin.
Costurerx: Lilian.


— Self-Publishing Workshop: Juan Manuel Puerto (Coordinación). 
Artists Participating: Bruno Alexander, La Chinoise, Emanuel Gerber, Federico Grabina, Dani Raskovsky, Tornado Rodríguez.



Photographic Record: Proyecto Mugre, Eliana Tujschnaider.

Intervention/Mounting of the Photographic Record: Raquel Arcidiácono, Costanza Cucuzza, Daniela Eliana Flores.

Graphic Design: Segundo Palladino

— Centro Cultural Recoleta - Collaborative Projects Program

The Centro Cultural Recoleta opens a window in its programming with the aim of inviting public and private organizations, as well as self-managed collectives with a proven track record in the cultural, artistic, and educational sectors, to partner in the execution of cultural projects that are free and open to the public, aimed at young people. The selected projects will coexist with the center's own programming planned for the second half of 2019.

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