The thoughts of others aren’t stolen, but they are sometimes found

The thoughts of others aren’t stolen,
but they are sometimes found

by Agustina Muñoz

Text for the publication Contemporary Argentine Art: Annual Report, ArteBA.

“I’m going to draw a line as a possible way of recognizing what emerges as shared repetition, as an intention that I see making a powerful appearance on the local scene: the need to produce works that make us spend time together. These are works that set out new ways of understanding and asking ourselves about being with others. (...) Bárbara Hang and Ana Laura Lozza’s performance Consumation consists of a circle of people sitting around a table with a bowl of water and a bar of soap. (...) What does that circle of people become? What is taking place with the consumption of that soap before everyone’s eyes? With that material used and used up, with that task regulated by all the participants, marking a productive but also a symbolic time. The soap that’s used up as time is consumed and people perform: a way of demonstrating our historical presence in the world and our responsibility in shared time.”

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