The Uruguay Pavilion is represented by the artist Eduardo Cardozo, with the project Latente, an immersive installation that seeks to create a relational act between two painters at a distance: the Uruguayan Cardozo and the Venetian Tintoretto. This dialogue consists of three moments: the nude, the wall of Cardozo's studio, transferred to Venice using the stacco technique; the dress, an interpretation that the Uruguayan artist makes of one of the sketches of Tintoretto's Paradise; and the veil, a cloth sewn from the scraps of gauze used to move the walls of the studio. Thus, a counterpoint is generated between Uruguay and Italy, south and north, between Cardozo's work and his reinterpretation of Tintoretto's painting.
The room is enveloped in a static or silent atmosphere, where a certain warmth -proper of what is familiar to us- converges with a crumbling and decadent air that lets us glimpse the passage of time. This is a time of encounter, of dialogue, as well as of inner reflection, of dialogue with oneself. In this relational act that Cardozo proposes to us, it is as much about what he learns and knows about Tintoretto and Venice as it is about what he discovers about himself, whether or not he recognizes himself in the dialogue with the other.
Commissioner: Facundo de Almeida
Curator: Elisa Valerio
Contributor: Álvaro Zinno
Photos: Álvaro Zinno
Supported by: WTC Montevideo Free Zone, Magma, Universidad Católica del Uruguay, Este Arte, Fundación Ama Amoedo, MACA.