YouTube

Facebook

Instagram

Placenta escarlata


28.03.2018 This time we unquestionably find ourselves before a desire alien to the expressive mission of the thousand tongues in the shadow. We are before a desire that investigates a new possible future, one forged from visceral and turbulent emotions, from muddled feelings and negative utopias. [...] Placenta Escarlata can be envisioned as a strange environment where the inevitable promise of a new twisted future is finally brought to the surface, and it looks like a dark room that holds the most intense moment of a ritual made up of a mass of bestial bodies in motion desperately looking for the new destructive incarnation of freedom, that signal that leads the dizzy arrow of an intoxicated daydream amidst the remains of a reality enraptured by knots of the repressive and that finally warns us that we have reached the gates of the pleasure dome. [...] Like the devout one who lets himself be intoxicated by the promise of muddled feelings and seriously undertakes the infectious multiplication of the occult, Nicanor Aráoz shows us, in this obscene chamber, further research that, before the freezing heat of neon light, shares the passion that takes hold of him in secret, that torments him until he is driven to utter the most beautiful spell in the history of the night—the one that stubbornly inquires into the possibility of a new life. Fragment of text “666999” by Nicolás Cuello


Catalogue

Placenta escarlata — 666999

Esp (pdf)

links

Nicolás Cuello. "Bestiario". Suplemento Soy, Página/12, abril de 2018

Laura Isola. "Un ruinoso esplandor". Perfil, abril de 2018

Emanuel Franco. "Placenta Escarlata". Revista Otra Parte, abril de 2018



Fairs

ARTEBA 2026

28.11.2026 Buenos Aires. BARRO takes part in arteba’s 35th anniversary edition with a selection of artists from its roster, bringing together different generations and perspectives from the contemporary art scene. Matías Duville, Martín Legón, Mónica Giron, Mondongo, Nicanor Aráoz, Joaquín Boz, Nacha Canvas, Guillermo Kuitca, Luciana Lamothe, La Chola Pob

Exhibitions

QUERIDO TETO: SIN COMENTARIOS

17.10.2026 Querido Teto: sin comentarios, by MARCELO POMBO. Curated by Bárbara Golubicki. I found this photo the other day.It’s one of the very few I have of me when I was fourteen, when my aunt came to visit from Australia. She’d moved there a couple of years before and had come back to see her parents, who were seriously ill. On her trip to Argentina, she took a few photos and then sent them to me from Australia once she’d got back. She called me Teto. On the back of the photograph, she wrote: ‘Dear Teto: no comment’. Excerpt from the text, Trapos de cocina by Mauro Libertella

Exhibitions

PREFIERO FIERRO

08.08.2026 LUCIANA LAMOTHE Like her predecessors, Luciana is responding to the systemic violence of our present by harnessing the power of tools and materials which are forced to subvert their usual uses and functions to interrupt the systems they belong to. Now, in overwhelming scale, Lamothe’s works continue to expose – and sometimes threaten – the fragility and violence of our lives. What they offer is not the promise of redress or resolution but a radical new path forward. A gesture that refuses to perpetuate the illusion of seamless progress and instead presents an aesthetic of risk.

Exhibitions

SABAN & WOODGATE Segundas Vidas

30.05.2026 The exhibition Segundas vidas, curated by SONIA BECCE, unfolds in two parts. The first room, featuring recent work by Analía Saban, marks the artist’s first solo exhibition in Buenos Aires in more than ten years. The second room features a new series of ARC (Animal Rug Company) works, a project that Agustina Woodgate began in 2010.

News

MATÍAS DUVILLE
61º Biennale di Venezia

09.05.2026 Matías Duville presents Monitor Yin Yang, curated by Josefina Barcia, a site-specific installation that transforms the space into a traversable territory constructed with salt and charcoal. The project expands drawing into a spatial, sonic, and performative experience. Biennale di Venezia, Argentine Pavillion, until November 22, 2026.

News

NICANOR ARÁOZ in Venice

05.05.2026 Nicanor Aráoz participates in the group exhibition Oscuridad visible: La larga sombra de la dictadura, organized by Museo Moderno of Buenos Aires to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the last military coup. Aráoz presents Glótica 3 (Argentina Brava Mix). At Spazio Punch, Venice, Italy.

News

GABRIEL CHAILE at Whitechapel

01.04.2026 Gabriel Chaile presents his new solo exhibition, Archaeology of Memory, where he scavenges a variety of decorative and functional objects from the local area surrounding the Whitechapel Gallery, to be displayed alongside guardian adobe sculptures. Until September 6, 2026.

News

LA CHOLA at MASP

06.03.2026 La Chola Poblete: pop andino, is La Chola's first exhibition in Brazil. Curated by Adriano Pedrosa and Leandro Muniz, the exhibition brings together 31 works, including 14 watercolors from the iconic series Vírgenes cholas, exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2024. At the São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP) until August 8, 2026.

Fairs

ARCO Madrid 2026

04.03.2026 Madrid, Spain. Solo Show by Agustina Woodgate in the section “Profiles. Latin American Art” curated by José Esparza Chong Cuy.

News

WOODGATE at Diriyah Biennale

03.02.2026 Woodgate is participating in the third edition of the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, In Interludes and Transitions. Curated by Nora Razian and Sabih Ahmed. She is the only participant from Argentina and presents a new instance of The Source, a series of artworks taking the shape of site-specific water infrastructures. In Diriyah, UAE.

BARRO ARTE CONTEMPORANEO
BUENOS AIRES, ARG +54 11 4978 3759
NEW YORK, USA +1 212 652 4410