A fellow of the Semillero 2024 programme, thanks to a collaboration with Fundación Williams, Malena Tatián (Córdoba) came to ´ace to investigate the local art circuit and soak up the activities taking place in Buenos Aires in different cultural and art spaces, meeting and interviewing local artists. Her time at ´ace allowed Malena to transform a broader research project around temporality into a specific curatorship called The Sanctuary of Sleep, where she gathered clues towards works by the artists from Córdoba Vnvs Mvtnt (aka Mario de la Quintana), Ipsilux, Dioniso, Candela Basualdo, and Javier rojas, all of whom, through different languages (sound art, installation, performance practices and zines), work around the experience of ecstasy. Her month-long residency was spent between a questioning of craft and method, while giving a provisional form to a curatorial project that is still under construction.

STATEMENT BY THE RESIDENT

Currently, I find in curating a form of research and a way of bringing together and approaching different practices of knowledge that are singularised in the language of the artists I work with. This craft allows me to build affinities between practices and works that make other times perceptible within this time, making the idea of a single time, linear and forward, fail. Lately, I have found that in ecstasy there is an experience of emptying of the self where the notion of time is lost, the present is distorted and we practice other bodies: different dimensions and forms of transmission of messages appear.