Liliana Porter's First Solo Exhibition at MALBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina

The installation contains a series of flat stages in which some of the characters of her already famous cast will be devoted to specific chores: building and destroying, dispersing and gathering, coming and going, cleaning, sweeping, getting up, falling down, spilling, and sewing, amongst other activities. A selection of works on paper of Porter's recent production completes the show.

In Liliana Porter's words: “My work includes engravings, drawings, installations, objects, public art projects, photography, film, and video. The recurrent themes come from reflections on representation, of the concept of time and of that ambiguous space between what we call real and the images. In the past years, almost without me noticing, a varied cast of main characters of ‘inanimate objects’ has started to appear in my works: small figures, decorations, things found in the flea markets. They act in a monochromatic and empty space, in a non-lineal space, a space that is more comprehensive."

For the occasion of the exposition, Malba will edit a new catalog of Liliana Porter, with an exhaustive photographic registry of the installation. In 2003, the museum co-edited along with the Centro Cultural Recoleta a catalog of its retrospective "Liliana Porter. Photography and Fiction (November 2003- February 2004)" ( Liliana Porter. Fotografía y Ficción [noviembre 2003 – febrero 2004]), as part of its co-editing program of publications with other institutions.

Malba will also present the book "Liliana Porter: In Conversation with Inés Katzenstein" ( Liliana Porter: en conversación con Inés Katzenstein), #7 of the Conversation series, edited by the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Foundation, 2013. This seventh volume in the series presents an engaging dialogue between the Argentinian artist Liliana Porter and curator Inés Katzenstein, and includes an introductory essay by Gregory Volk. Porter describes with clarity and humor the ways in which her work blends the real with the representational, often in hypothetical, yet convincing, mini-dramas using mass-produced, kitsch objects that elicit both our compassion and our laughter.

Conversaciones / Conversations is a series of bilingual books published by the Fundación Cisneros / Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros featuring unique in-depth conversations between Latin American artists and lea ding critics, curators, and art historians. Each illustrated volume presents a comprehensive first-hand account of the artist’s development accompanied by critical reflections from the authors as well as an introductory essay by a recognized specialist.