Next Saturday, May 23, starting at 5 p.m., the Viedma Galería de Arte (Denis Roa 768, Asunción) opens the collective exhibition Poetics of the Territory, as part of the 2026 edition of Noche de Galerías. Admission is free.
The curatorial text, signed by Siu Lizaso and Florencia Gauna, moves away from the literal representation of the landscape. The selected works engage directly with collective memory, understanding that “the territory appears as a space where memories accumulate, where the past remains present, and where individual experiences intertwine with common history.” Space ceases to be a mere geographic support and becomes a constitutive element of the subject.
The show brings together ten creators who articulate different languages. Manuel Viedma presents landscapes that immortalize a specific space and time. Joaquín Sánchez integrates pre-colonial knowledge into contemporary language, transforming them into living traces of his own history. Ceramist Carolina Noguera highlights the territory as a channel of cultural transmission and maternal heritage, while Ingrid Seall’s botanical watercolors manifest the purity and transformation processes of the intimate homeland.
Alfredo Quiroz combines painting, photography, and installation to examine the body and memory as spaces for the inscription of human experiences. Daniel Mallorquín proposes thinking of the territory as a surface in constant mutation, blurring the boundaries between the material and the symbolic. Felicia Barrios uses the image as a vehicle to explore the relationship between memory and presence. Christian Ceuppens gives form to myth and historical narrative with a stroke that references secret spaces and stories of the local imaginary.
The exhibition also includes the photographic perspectives of Jesús Ruiz Díaz and Grace Ratto. Ruiz Díaz, trained in New York and Paris, explores everyday life, identity, and the marginality of the community in a contemporary key. Ratto, of Argentine origin, transports the poetics of the rural environment of northern Santa Fe into a close dialogue with abstract painting, capturing the harmony, simplicity, and fragility of the Latin American natural surroundings.