Tools for mapping the sky - ADRIÁN SOSA

CURATED BY: JOAQUÍN RODRÍGUEZ JULY 3-26, 2025 PH: Alejandra Unates “I will open the sky. I will tear the clouds with tools raised on my back. I will till the blue sky, turn it over, sift it. I will seek inspiration by wearing down my muscles, watering the furrows with sweat. I will pray that the seed grows toward the sublime. I will point the edge of my axe against the sun, the machetes at the stars.” Adrián Sosa, June 2025. Sosa's work is rooted in the rural legacy of Tucumán, its historical, political, and material elements. However, this exhibition reveals something more. The aesthetic of precarity that characterizes his work is not only a manifestation of his origins, but also a deliberate, articulated, and coherent language. Objects and actions become poetic devices: they are material and conceptual instruments that the artist constructs to reimagine and mark their own coordinates in that vast firmament we now call the field of art. Each work is a tool for tearing through the dense clouds of established conventions or for condensing new celestial formations charged with unexplored possibilities. The artist's body, the performative act, and the artistic objects not only explore space, express an identity, represent a territory, or capture a moment; they are metaphors for a greater act: that of tracing the sky, their own sky. Joaquín Rodríguez