Graciela Sacco

As a project for artistic reflection and exploration, M2 was based on an idea which can be formulated simply: a square meter is the minimum vital space required by the human being in order not to feel harassed or invaded in his/her immediate privacy. This very brief enunciation opens a wide range of inquiries into multiple and elaborate issues which Graciela Sacco has addressed using her refined artistic resources and tools, as well as her imaginative capacity.

M2:TA revisited some of the motivations and iconic elements that Graciela already handled when, towards the mid-1990s, her work traveled from her native Rosario to the international art scene, in a journey which has taken it from Venice to Shanghai, from Rome to Jerusalem, from Sao Paulo to Cairo: human displacement, particularly the one caused by migrations, and the gestures of mobility that inscribe it in visual representation. In M2:TA, the square meter, envisaged from the perspective of the possibilities of art as a practice of critical reflection and handling of signs, was also a measurement that the artist employed as a marker of the physical and symbolical boundaries of the thoughts, feelings and actions of contemporary man.

Particularly noteworthy in this exhibit were the numerous connections established among the works, which often contained allusions to other correspondences with earlier moments in the development of the artist’s career. Cualquier salida puede ser un encierro, dated 2010, featured a C-print of the sea printed on vertically cut wooden planks which, placed one beside the other with small intervals between them, were reminiscent of a fence; Muro, 2011, was a video-installation in which, through the space left by a half-open door, the viewer could observe a figure moving along a curved wall that never ends, in a journey ad infinitum: both were complex metaphors for the limits of displacement.