FIREFLIES PROJECT. Carcarañá, Argentina.

Fall 2017

Carcarañá, Santa Fe, Argentina.

Invent a genealogy. Go through the chasm between the scientific and the religious. Make every little act of life a biblical event. The Carcarañá furrows the earth, and in that groove the weather settles. As in a locket, memories are kept inside the ravines, which contrast with the constant fluidity of the river. It seems that in that flow, in the cause that deposits its waters in the Coronda first, and in Paraná later, small stories stop, finding shelter, until some explorer dares to retrace them.

José Guevara and Thomas Falkner, both Jesuits, are the first to find large fossils in the vicinity of Carcarañá. They attribute, however, those bones to human giants who would have inhabited these lands before the universal flood: “The giants, formidable towers of flesh, which in only the name bear the terror and awe of the people, provoke our attention above all. They are not present, but ancient vestiges, which are discovered over time about the Carcarañal and other parts, show that there were in the past tense. ”

American exuberance overflows the European vision. Falkner, an English doctor trained in the flourishing science of his country, is not enough to analyze a landscape that – insistently – overflows it. What biblical scenes will this scientist have imagined become a Jesuit? What are the stories that this river keeps? Perhaps the giants still inhabit these lands, finding at night the time to leave the ravine and wander along the riverbank.

Data sheet:

Station 1: Visual installation: Diego Arraigada

Station 2: Visual installation: Jesu Antuña

Station 3: Audiovisual installation: Lilen Barberis

Station 4: Sound installation: Firefly Furiosa / E`Bo