TOMAS REDRADO ART presents The Secret Life of Flowers by Argentine-Peruvian artist Julieta Tarraubella (Buenos Aires, 1991), in collaboration with Rolf Art (Buenos Aires). The exhibition follows Tarraubella’s recent solo presentation in the Positions sector at Art Basel Miami Beach this past December.
Julieta Tarraubella’s artistic practice began between 2011 – 2014, and has since expanded into projects where photography is combined with video, video sculpture, performance, and installation. Tarraubella creates transmedia narratives and audiovisual fictions-cyborg assemblages of images, scopic regimes, temporalities, and spectral figuration. Through these forms, she questions the usual boundaries between body and landscape, nature and technology, reality and fiction. Her work opens up intervals, suspensions, and folds within dominant systems of meaning, activating a sensitive imagination to invent new ways of understanding what exists.
The Secret Life of Flowers, a project initiated in 2018, presents a “cyborg garden”—a transmedia greenhouse of video sculptures combining photographs and screens with video fragments sourced from security cameras. The artist records the full life cycle of lilies, amaryllises, and peonies-sourced from the Buenos Aires flower market-from bloom to decay, inside isolated panels under surveillance and observation via closed-circuit cameras. This infotechnological vanitas, Tarraubella’s techno-garden, addresses the ways contemporary informatization processes, audiovisual imagery, and surveillance devices operate in biopolitical control and the shaping of subjectivities and life possibilities in the present. At the same time, they define how we see, draw the boundaries of the visible, and shape economies of appearance, desire, and dominant sensory and scopic orders.
The looped “screen-images” of recorded and staged life-shown from moments of full bloom to decay-invite the viewer to look, to crave, and to follow that desire. But for Tarraubella, images aren’t just what we see. Through their performative nature, they create relations, act on our senses, and open counter-scenes that disrupt the dominant ways we experience and understand what’s visible. In contrast to the logic of transparency that moldes mainstream representational frameworks, the “secret life” revealed by the audiovisual recording resists full capture-something always escapes, or shows itself as defiant to the ways vision is now shaped by surveillance technologies and the real-time consumption of images.
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