- Micaela Vindman
Artists: Narcisa Hirsch, Luiz Roque, Rosario Zorraquin
Right now I’m not there focuses on the process of bringing inner aspects of oneself to the surface. Drawing from video, sculpture, and painting, the works of Narcisa Hirsch, Luiz Roque, and Rosario Zorraquin explore what happens when fragmented inner worlds are shaped through visual media and brought into our public world. Influenced by the idea of what French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan termed “extimacy,” where our seemingly most intimate elements come to feel radically alien to us, the exhibition reveals the strangeness and discomfort of sharing what is most personal—and the trouble we might have with recognizing what we find.
Through conversation, projection, and fantasy, the artists render visible—yet not fully comprehensible—their interiorities or those of others. Zorraquin’s translucent, sculptural paintings act as silent records of conversations she refers to as “readings,” where the body fades, but emotional exchanges persist. Through her experimental film, developed over three decades, Hirsch points to the disorienting feeling of being confronted with our own image and failing to fully recognize it. Roque’s film captures the atmosphere of the nighttime landscape of Buenos Aires, engaging with the city’s architecture and the highly personal moments that play out in its streets and private spaces after dusk. This exhibition explores how their works translate emotional traces and psychological imprints into tangible, shared forms.
The three artists use different mediums to bring to the surface what often remains unseen, working with screens, layers, and filters to mediate the relationship between the viewer, the space, the process, and their works. The personal appears unfamiliar through fragmented forms, creating an uncanny feeling—an alienness or otherness—that we find in the very space where we think we can access what is most intimate.
