Tango, Intimacies beyond the Boundaries.
Music has always played a major role in my family history.
In tango there is a crossover between what is local and what is universal. It tells stories about what it is to be human, exploring both sensuality and suffering with painful intensity.
My aim is to radicalize the eroticism inherent to tango and take it to an extreme.
“The week seems too long when passion is absent”, says the lyrics of one song. Music and poetry connect me to daydreams that are at once violent and amorous. My works explore the “contacts” that take place at these “boundaries.
Borges, Pina Bausch, Nan Goldin, Klimt, Piazzolla, Goyeneche, Adriana Varela, Horacio Ferrer, and others, rise up and fade away among the images and contents.
“A woman’s whim by the dagger wielded”, came from a reading of Borges works which mention this verse by Evaristo Carriego, and refers to the admiration inspired by the cutlers and their courage, screwed to sticking point, when they dueled over their besmirched honor over a woman.
I share with tango this strong pulse of being part of Buenos Aires. Here they are used as symbols bearing the subjective marks of affections and memories, which play like “tattoos” on our bodies”.
Patricia Linenberg