# sofia


## Posts

- [Energy and optimism for life. 60 years of Ruth Benzácar Art Gallery](https://sofiadourron.com/en/energy-and-optimism-for-life-60-years-of-ruth-benzacar-art-gallery/): Energy and optimism for life create a journey through the biography of Ruth Benzacar Art Gallery that tells of its winding path, from the house-gallery, governed by affection and intuition, to the construction of a consolidated institution, although still today infused with romanticism and youth.
- [Better to be part of the mud](https://sofiadourron.com/en/better-to-be-part-of-the-mud/): In this new theater—which is at once backdrop, puppeteer, and master of ceremonies—and which structures this exhibition, Malena once again brings to the stage the mud of the human condition and the swaying set in motion by the emotions that inhabit it.
- [Fofo World](https://sofiadourron.com/en/fofo-world/): Mundo fofo is an encounter with a few of the territories that Cristina has explored over the course of her career, and an invitation to approach them more closely, from a perspective that is rooted in their present moment: to go beyond traditional ways of understanding the human.
- [Green Shadows Underwater](https://sofiadourron.com/en/green-shadows-underwater/): In Green Shadows Underwater, Aurora draws on techno-scientific images to create a chorus of voices and altered gazes, navigating between the biological record and speculative fiction. 
- [Brick Woman](https://sofiadourron.com/en/brick-woman/):  In the work of Flor Alvarado, the house expands and grows within the body, or perhaps they grow together; it is difficult to tell where one ends and the other begins. Along with them, tensions and conflicts are also amplified.
- [The Air Wavered Around Them.](https://sofiadourron.com/en/the-air-wavered-around-them/): Through the specific languages, narratives, and materials of each work, the exhibition invites reflection on how notions of space, territory, and landscape—central to the construction of our individual and collective identities—are shaped by our bodies and, in turn, how our bodies are molded by the environments that surround them.
- [In the Order of the Stones](https://sofiadourron.com/en/in-the-order-of-the-stones/): The Argentina Pavilion presents In the Order of the Stones, a solo show by artist Florence Levy that challenges the status of ‘progress’ and poetically narrates the impending breakdown of the capitalist system.
- [Hope the Doors Collapse](https://sofiadourron.com/en/hope-the-doors-collapse/): Ojalá se derrumben las puertas [Hope the Doors Collapse], Argentina’s participation in the 60 Mostra Internazionale d’Arte - La Biennale di Venezia and presenting the work of Luciana Lamothe, inhabits the (visible and invisible) borders that separate the human from the non-human.
- [Hope the Doors Collapse. The book](https://sofiadourron.com/en/hope-the-doors-collapse-the-book/): Hope the Doors Collapse, the book, accompanied Luciana Lamothe's exhibition at the Argentine Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale.
- [The Habitat](https://sofiadourron.com/en/the-habitat/): This book is a kind of notebook, a record of the long process that led Untitled from paper to the large installation that the artist presented at the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires in October 2017.
- [Ferales](https://sofiadourron.com/en/ferales-2/): Ferales explores the ecological worlds that emerge when non-human entities become entangled with human infrastructure projects, when the Western-Kantian subject becomes a multirelational and coupled subject that blurs the differences between inside and outside.
- [Local Futurisms and Extractive Pasts](https://sofiadourron.com/en/local-futurisms-and-extractive-pasts-2/): Local Futurisms and Extractive Pasts explores some of the works presented at THIS TOO, IS A MAP, the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, and the way futurisms recover non-Western histories, materials and epistemologies, cosmologies and ontologies.
- [THIS TOO, IS A MAP](https://sofiadourron.com/en/this-too-is-a-map-2/): THIS TOO, IS A MAP, the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, explored the aesthetics of non-territorial cartographies through the works of 40 artists across 6 venues in the city of Seoul.
- [There was a word inside a stone](https://sofiadourron.com/en/there-was-a-word-inside-a-stone-2/): In this essay, stones, minerals and language travel together through their colonial and political histories. Dourron shows how the power structures of linguistics emerged in parallel with mineral classification, and how Western frameworks for both haunt current linguistic and rock relations.
- [Bogus Explanations](https://sofiadourron.com/en/explicaciones-falsas-2/): Rather than an explanation, this text is an attempt to draw nearer to Joaquin’s paintings, a further insistence on getting to know them beyond what they wish to be known or, probably, beyond the limits of our own capabilities to know them.
- [Umbra](https://sofiadourron.com/en/umbra-2/): From images that intertwine astronomical events and their optical manifestations with the perception of shapes and color, Guido Yannitto builds his own space for pictorial exploration. Thus, Umbra produces an intuitive approach between cosmic phenomena, their telluric counterparts and some expanded ideas about painting.
- [Myths of the Near Future](https://sofiadourron.com/en/myths-of-the-near-future/): Myths of the Near Future brings together artists who actively and poetically revisit militant films from the late 60s, old Korean protest songs, degraded craft techniques, forgotten archives and shamanic rituals; they collaborate with others, human and non-human witnesses of tragedy and violence.
- [From Fairies to Monsters: Ad Minoliti’s Furry Tales ](https://sofiadourron.com/en/from-fairies-to-monsters-ad-minolitis-furry-tales/): Cuentos teddy bears, Ad Minoliti's exhibition at La Casa Encendida, revisits different classic versions of Little Red Riding Hood to transform the traditional story into a new narrative horizon that imagines other possible worlds.
- [Third Section](https://sofiadourron.com/en/third-section/): In Carla Barbero's Third Section, soft, dreamed, imagined and copied architectures coexist, emerging from different moments of the day and night, from emotions, thoughts and more or less temporary desires. As rustic as the views of the mountains, but illuminated by small golden lagoons.
- [After Nature](https://sofiadourron.com/en/after-nature/): From the porous limit between dichotomies such as nature versus humanx, humanx versus machine and the empirical world versus the supernatural or extraterrestrial, After Nature proposes to experience the “ecological” not as a pedagogical category but as a way of re-imagining our ties with the material world.
- [Un lugar a donde ir](https://sofiadourron.com/en/un-lugar-a-donde-ir-2/): Guided by her intuitions about space and architecture, Mariela Vita wonders what the Nakagin Tower, an improvised gym on a beach in Rio de Janeiro, the training area of a naval military school in Ensenada, a playground designed by Noguchi have in common?
- [Oceanica](https://sofiadourron.com/en/oceanica/): By overflowing the borders between fiction and reality, between human and non-human, between science and spirituality, Oceanica links universes of cyborg love and post-apocalyptic dystopia, and deploys a stage for the dispute of the territories of contemporaries language, relationships and affection.
- [Caudal](https://sofiadourron.com/en/caudal-2/): In Joaquín’s paintings, everything gets intertwined, and in that intertwining the outlines, once rigid and finished, get soft and porous; in the overlap of small gestures, shapes and colors which become dirty with one another and almost unrecognizable, the references to the world around us and its principle of difference fade.
- [Catalogue: Temporada fulgor. Foto Estudio Luisita Buenos Aires](https://sofiadourron.com/en/catalogue-temporada-fulgor-foto-estudio-luisita-buenos-aires/): This—the heart of the Foto Estudio Luisita archive—offers us an opportunity to blur the boundaries of the photography canon with its rigid limits between the commercial and the artistic, between institutions and the vast world that lives at their margins, an opportunity to delve into the images of the body with no intellectual qualms or squeamishness.
- [Museums as Carrier Bags. A Short Story Around Collecting](https://sofiadourron.com/en/museums-as-carrier-bags-a-short-story-around-collecting-2/): I want to propose a story about museums and collections that can bring us closer to Le Guin's theory of the handbag approach. One that takes us through the small and less visited alleys of museum history, where the Heroes never even arrived.
- [Temporada Fulgor. Foto Estudio Luisita](https://sofiadourron.com/en/temporada-fulgor-foto-estudio-luisita-2/): Temporada Fulgor presents a selection from the largest body of work that the sisters decided to preserve: the revue theater photos taken between 1964 and 1980. This set of images offers a canon of beauty of a time when hegemonic and patriarchal corporality and eroticism were centerstage, a canon assembled for the mass consumption that dominated popular culture and that, under so many retouched phantasmagoric layers, begins to crack.
- [MaytoDay: Myths of the Near Future](https://sofiadourron.com/en/maytoday-myths-of-the-near-future-2/): MaytoDay commemorated the civil uprisings of May 18, 1980 in the city of Gwangju. The book brings together the collaborations of four teams of curators from Asia and Latin America to think about memory, democratization movements and the state of democracy today. 
- [Myths of the Near Future](https://sofiadourron.com/en/mitos-del-futuro-proximo-2022-eng/): Myths of the Near Future brings together artists who actively and poetically revisit militant films from the late 60s, old Korean protest songs, degraded craft techniques, forgotten archives and shamanic rituals; they collaborate with others, human and non-human witnesses of tragedy and violence.
- [Del Prete or Pictorial Gluttony](https://sofiadourron.com/en/del-prete-or-pictorial-gluttony/): There is no evolutionary chain or fate on the horizon 104 in Del Prete’s procedures. What there is, is an arachnid construction and a voracious appetite paired with somewhat slow digestion. Discussions of his modernity and affinities, of his lines of kinship (ancestors and descendants) matter little today.
- [The Nose, the Princess and a Bowl of Rice. Bits of Decolonization (of the unconscious) in Korean art](https://sofiadourron.com/en/the-nose-the-princess-and-a-bowl-of-rice-bits-of-decolonization-of-the-unconscious-in-korean-art-2/): This essay analyzes how three Korean artists address precariousness embodied in issues of colonialism, patriarchy, gender, social normativity, and the asphyxiation of desire, as their own places of enunciation and starting point for decolonization, as opposed to mere objects of observation.
- [Sergio Avello: Joven profesional multipropósito](https://sofiadourron.com/en/sergio-avello-joven-profesional-multiproposito-2/): Sergio Avello (Mar del Plata, 1964 – Buenos Aires, 2010) saw art as a way of studying the world, finding beauty and pleasure in the everyday and connecting with other people. Sergio Avello: a young, multi-talented professional, explores Avello’s artistic career but also expands into a larger universe of nightlife and friendships.

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- [about](https://sofiadourron.com/en/about/): about Sofía Dourron is a researcher and independent curator. Her current work investigates the relationships between decolonial perspectives, certain ideas from posthumanism, environmental philosophy, and artistic practices. She also continues her inquiries into the institutional nature of art in Latin America, focusing on museums as colonizing devices and on the possibilities of designing alternative genealogies that escape the modern universalist canon. Her recent projects include Energy and Optimism for Life. 60 Years of Ruth Benzacar Gallery (2025, Ruth Benzacar Galería de Arte), It Would Be Better to Be Part of the Mud by Malena Pizani (2025, Fundación Federico J. Klemm), […]
- [Home Eng](https://sofiadourron.com/en/home-eng/)


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