Museo Sivorí - Buenos Aires

A handful of earth

PAREDES /

Curator
Sandra Juárez

Sep. 11, 2025 — Nov. 30, 2025

About exhibition

Beginnings: Roots and Seeds
The exhibition opens with a literal suspense: hanging sculptures of monumental roots, suspended in the air as if still waiting to find a soil to anchor themselves in. There is no timid metaphor here — these are large-scale roots, fibrous bodies carrying hidden seeds, treasures in pause awaiting their moment of germination.
The scene reminds us that every beginning is an interval. The seed, before becoming a tree, is a buried secret; and the root, before nourishing, is a promise of belonging. Paredes turns that process into a tangible image: what hangs is not “uprooted” in a negative sense, but on the verge of choosing where to plant its story.

The exhibition text insists on the journey as a vital cycle.
These initial pieces are not merely a prologue: they form the first station of a journey that will later close again in Becoming Earth. Like musical variations, as Sandra Juárez would say, each work repeats a central theme —belonging, the bond with the land— but with different modulations.

In theoretical terms, one could read these roots through Deleuze: the becoming-seed as time in potential, as the vibration of what is not yet but insists on being. The time of germination —that fertile waiting— is the same that the viewer experiences upon entering the room. The work is not limited to being observed; it places you in the position of the sprout, at the threshold of something just beginning.

The beginning of A Handful of Earth offers no certainties: it offers latency. And that latency is the most eloquent statement of intent.

—Excerpt from Julieta Ogandoa’s text for @artincaps on the exhibition curated by Sandra Juárez