When Art gives the Territory back its Voice

Yesterday at El Uno y La Belleza (a special small theatre in Puerto Madryn, Patagonia), we presented our videoart project La Espera de la Sirena (The Mermaid’s Wait), created in collaboration with Facundo Vazquez (Cuquex) and Lux Kodama (Román Gomes and Joel Scott Hume).

But what unfolded went far beyond a screening: it became a meeting point.

A space where art, territory, and people converged to open questions, memories, and new ways of seeing.

From the very beginning, with the guided meditation, something shifted in the room.
Time slowed down.
Perception softened.
And the audience gradually entered a state of listening — the same one this work emerges from.

The experience unfolded through projections, live music, images, and textures.
Sand, salt water, shells and metal to be felt.
A space designed not just to be observed, but to be inhabited.

Not as spectators — but as participants.

One of the most powerful aspects of the evening was the audience’s response.
Many shared personal stories connected to the port, to those ships, to that part of the city that is often overlooked, unnoticed, or simply passed through.

An industrial space that, for a moment, through art, became something else.

It became presence.
Memory.
Possibility.

This act of “artifying” — of giving symbolic life back to a place — revealed itself as one of the deepest layers of the experience.

Participation became a central thread.

At the entrance, we left words, phrases, open invitations.
People could take one, and later on leave their own if they wished.

And they did.

By the end of the night, the blank pieces of paper were full of thoughts, drawings, sensations, reflections.

The work was no longer just ours: it expanded, it became collective.

This is at the heart of what we want to continue exploring:
an art that does not close, but opens.
That does not impose, but listens.
That is built with others.

We are deeply grateful to everyone who came and who allowed themselves to feel; who shared something of themselves.

And to El Uno y La Belleza for holding the space so beautifully, allowing the installation to unfold in its full sensory dimension.

This was not an ending for our art collective and for this project; it was a beginning. Of a new journey.

The Mermaid’s Wait continues to grow:
in what it leaves behind,
in what it awakens.

And this pulse continues into our next project, La Memoria de la Meseta.

An invitation to keep exploring territory, memory, and collective creation.

We are still listening.

Keep journeying along with us…