The empathic house. Yamandú Canosa's paintings, drawings, photographs and murals in La casa empática are arranged as a “landscape-territory” of the world, an inclusive and empathetic “total landscape”. Concepts such as territory, border, miscegenation, belonging, instability and difference expand from the poetics of the artist's sharp, critical and essential gaze. In this landscape of the world, the horizon articulates the iconography of the four walls of the gallery -the South Wall, the East Wall, the North Wall and the West Wall- that place the Uruguay Pavilion on the Giardini's map. The Empathic House is entered from the South. The total landscape is completed with the intervention on the façade and with the starry sky installed on the pavilion's roof and its reflection on the floor. The horizon suggested by Yamandú Canosa is our common bond and exemplifies the beauty of our equality and our difference. The empathic house is the house of broken borders.
Commissioner: Alejandro Denes
Curators: David Armengol, Patricia Bentancur.
Collaborators: Francesca Bella, Roberto Delleva, Luciano Benites.
Photos: Courtesy 58th International Art Exhibition - Venice Biennale
Supported by: Antel, La Banca, Institut Ramon Llull.