Carpa Rosada (The Pink Tent)

With Marcos Perearnau, Alejandro López, Matías Laje & Manuel Mensa).
«Se Alquila/Estado» at Centro Cultural Juan de Salazar (Asunción, Paraguay), 2016.
«Carpa Rosada», Matienschön (Buenos Aires, Argentina), 2015.

A context-specific installation that is presented as a National Institution and that hosts multimedia works and a program of activities. It aims to bring national history to the present as a post-colonial exercise of citizenship. The Pink Tent stood as the Argentine President’s Office (the Pink House) during the national elections, and as a Regional Embassy in Paraguay during the Bicentennial of Independence.

View the exhibition catalog (for the first iteration at Matienschön)


Agustín Jais, Modelitos de democracia (Little models of democracy). Video, single channel, no sound, 4’31», 2015. For the event «Carpa Rosada: Tenemos visitas», Matienschön, November 4th, 2015.

 

Installation view
Activities
In Paraguay