Becoming Thing exhibits, for the first time in Chile, works by Argentine artist Diego Bianchi (Buenos Aires, 1969) produced from 2012 to the present. The different materials, strategies, decisions, and devices brought together in Il Posto introduce an abjection full of vitality into a seemingly inverted and subterranean landscape. A home for incomplete stories and the most opaque desires. A place where pessimism and utopia are one and the same.
Bianchi, a fluid architect, cool urban planner, naive parasite, and Buenos Aires collector, or all at once, builds by thinking about where the places and bodies that do not exist are. From the extremities that hang and traverse his figures emanates an energy capable of confirming the incessant struggle we wage against impossibility and the future. This benign and affective negativity feeds on the new and persistent kinds of associations that subvert the relationships between the body and devices. And these correspondences allow us to imagine new politics of the inanimate, and to think about the place that contradiction and confusion occupy in the construction of our aspirations and desires.
In 2005, paraphrasing Thomas Hirschhorn, Bianchi created an installation in which the words “No to nostalgia, Yes to stupidity” were written on a wall covered with adhesive tape. Becoming a thing is yet another example of these indeterminate but intense maxims of the artist. Deep down, everything that could be will be. Bianchi’s works occupy the Il Posto space for the first time, filling it with their intensity, discoveries, falls, prostheses, choreographies, and signs.
