
Gilda Picabea
In this exhibition’s two series, Gilda Picabea implicitly restages debates that arose in the 1940s in response to Argentina’s Concretist painting, whose practitioners were dead set on banishing illusion and reference from their medium. Her pictures reactivate those efforts, injecting viewers with the feeling that we are “possessed by our ancestors, by those others who have looked and lent their bodies to the dialogues of painting,” as María Amalia García writes in the show’s catalogue. But Picabea moves beyond Concrete art, and even evokes forms of representation that may seem anathema to them.