Leading art direction and communication within a collective exhibition.
- Period
- 2020 · CCK edition
- Place
- Cultural Kirchner Center (CCK) · Buenos Aires
- Format
- Installation · graphic ceramics · digital mediation
150+ biographies in the collective archive
01 / Responsibilities
- Lead the planning and coordination of the audiovisual and communication work within the collective project.
- Shape the art direction of visual and audiovisual communication around the exhibition’s shared concept.
- Coordinate content, digital access and exhibition documentation with the participating collaborators.
02 / Process optimisation
Connect creative decisions, responsibilities and production steps across exhibition communication and documentation.
03 / Contribution & outcome
A coordinated visual and communication contribution to a collective archive of more than 150 lives.
Concept
Altar Women and LGBTI+ Lives in Struggle brings gender perspective, collaborative research and contemporary art into one living archive. Portraits, graphic ceramics and QR linked biographies turn the exhibition into both a spatial encounter and an open repository of women’s and LGBTI+ histories of struggle.
A short history
Initiated in 2018 by Argentine Italian artist Silvia Barrios within MediaLab #ComunidadCulturaSolidaria, the project grew through international open calls and collective research. Curated at the CCK by Kekena Corvalán, its second edition was produced through a collective of artist-researchers whose work connected graphic ceramics, biographies and digital access. A virtual edition followed through the Matres International Women’s Ceramic Festival in Italy. By that stage, the shared research held more than 150 lives.
Artists and authorship
A project authored through direction, curatorship and collective research.
Altar Mujeres SXXI is structured as a collective artistic laboratory. The credits below recognise both its central artistic leadership and the artist-researchers who developed the CCK edition.
- Concept and artistic direction
- Silvia Barrios
- Curatorship · CCK edition
- Kekena Corvalán
- Artist-researcher collective · CCK 2020
- Florencia Aravena · Ángeles Boudevin · Marta Brizuela · Irma Cacia · Alicia Callegaro · Gloria De Paola · Mónica Patricia Domínguez · Duli · Adriana Alicia Flores · Gisele Jasmin Gabriel · Elia Gasparolo · Ayelén Guarino · Paz Herrera · Sofía Korol · Alejandra Latino · Rosa Latorre · Gina Marin · María Fernanda Medina · Carmín Micheli · María Claudia Mingiaca · Mónica Ocampo · Gabriela Olivieri · Noel Piacquadio · Ivanna Ponzio · Virginia Rodríguez · Gretta Saavedra · Carla Scerbo · Beatriz Sobuá · Sandra Soto · Liliana Straini · Estela Torres · Sonia Tortosa · Nayra Vallejos · Daniela Paola Zacur
- Selected lives in this portfolio archive
- Marina Abramović · Teresa C. Younger · Murasaki Shikibu · Juana Azurduy · Grete Stern · María Luisa Bemberg · Édith Piaf
Process and spatial logic
From proposition to public experience.
Collective research
Lives were selected and contextualised through a distributed research process, making each biography part of a wider political and social map.
A shared image language
Distinct portraits were translated into a direct black and white graphic register so individual stories could remain visible inside one coherent system.
Material and digital access
Printed surfaces and QR codes connected physical presence to extended biographies, allowing the installation to continue beyond the room.
Spatial activation
Suspended images, plants, conversation and projection formed a porous environment that visitors could enter rather than observe from a distance.
Social video record
Opening at the Cultural Kirchner Center
A social video record of the 2020 opening, presented as part of the audiovisual production and communication content developed around the exhibition.
A direct record of the exhibition as a public, social and mediated experience.
Open the original video on Facebook ↗Moving image record
#VidasEnLucha · virtual exhibition record
A moving image record of the project’s virtual exhibition format, developed through MediaLab #CulturaSolidaria in 2020.
Living graphic archive
Memoria Viva: biographies activated through image and QR.
A selection from the project’s graphic archive. Each card gives equal visual weight to a life, combining portrait, context and a QR entry into the wider living archive.
Selected archive
A living archive across editions.
The catalogue brings together public communication, installation views and audience encounters. Read as a sequence, the records show how one visual system travels between institutions while remaining open to new biographies, collaborators and forms of assembly.
10th edition · Museo de la Cárcova · exhibition announcement
Public programme · discussion table moderated by Silvia Barrios
Project network · Altar Women SXXI, OMUDIS and MediaLab
CCK opening · public presentation and press encounter
CCK installation · portraits, QR histories and moving image
Opening programme · conversation and live documentation
The portrait archive becomes an environment for encounter
Visitors navigate the archive through images and linked biographies
Spatial detail · archive, vegetation and public presence
Public record