Miguel Angel Ríos is an Argentinean artist born in Catamarca, a province at the extreme north of the country, as culturally far away from the capital, Buenos Aires, as it is geographically. Throughout Argentina’s short history, those in Beunos Aires have used the phrase el interior (the interior) to refer to the rest of the country. El interior, which makes up nearly all of the nation’s territory, paradoxically faces Buenos Aires, a city that has always thought of itself as a European metropolis tragically exiled in South America—the place of the strange or remote, of the marginal, that