Argentina

The volume presents a selection of works by more than twenty Argentine artists from different generations over the past fifty years. Through sculptures, installations, photographs, videos, and performances, the curatorial project unfolds along three axes-irony, literality, and quotation-that present different approaches to the representation of a culture often characterized, both in the past and today, by forms of violence. Situations and attitudes transcend current circumstances and are rooted in questions about the future and the social battles to be fought, in Argentina and around the world. This diverse journey also seeks to explore the many nuances and multiple forms of expression of a country that for years was the primary destination of large-scale European migration.

The title, a tribute to the novel of the same name by the Argentine writer of Italian origins Héctor Bianciotti, refers to the dichotomy between the uncanny and the luminous evoked by the artists, a metaphor for a story unknown by day and told by night.