Sonia Rammer na SACO Contemporary Art Biennial

Biennale Sztuki Współczesnej SACO1.2 odbędzie się w czerwcu i wrześniu 2025 r. na najsuchszej pustyni świata Atakama w Chile. Wydarzenie podkreśla związek między sztuką a nauką i prezentuje współczesne dzieła w specyficznych przestrzeniach, będących miejscem dla szczególnego dialogu z publicznością.

The SACO Biennial returns with a vengeance to northern Chile, transforming Antofagasta’s landscapes and historic spaces into venues for art and thought. SACO1.2 brought together nine artists from countries including Chile, Brazil, Canada, Norway, Lithuania, Poland, Paraguay, Argentina, and Belgium (Wallonia-Brussels), with works that address the body, memory, and territory. 

Meet the latest artists joining the more than 50 exhibitors at Dark Ecosystems and immerse yourself in this unmissable event featuring contemporary art. An invitation to view the world from the desert:

Francisco Medel (Chile) is an artist and architect from Antofagasta. His work connects the sea, memory, and northern territory through a symbolic and affective aesthetic. At SACO1.2, he will present The Fisherman of Dreams , a residential model boat woven from recycled rope, stones, and family mementos, like an intimate rite of memory and disappearance.

Daniel Jablonski (Brazil) will mount the piece The Flowering Desert , a typographic installation that poetically confronts mining propaganda with botanical descriptions of the flowering desert very common in the area. 

Tanya Busse (Canada-Norway) and Emilija Škarnulytė (Lithuania) make up New Mineral Collective, an international art platform that explores industry and the human relationship with the landscape. Their work has been shown in venues such as the Serpentine Galleries and SeMA. They will be present at the biennale with Hollow Earth , a short film that reflects on the High North as a territory of tension between desire, violence, and geological memory.

On the other hand, Sonia Rammer (Poland) , who in 2024 carried out an artistic residency at the Instituto Superior Latinoamericano de Arte (ISLA) of SACO, will explore interspecies links and displacements with Eso , a series of audiovisual pieces recorded in the Atacama Desert. 

Another of the artists participating in SACO residencies is Belén Rodríguez (Paraguay) , a multidisciplinary artist who focuses on research that articulates theory and practice, creating intersections between the social, gender, body, memory, technology, and the environment. For this edition of the biennial, she presents her work Hogar migrante (Migrant Home ), which broadly considers the female body as both a mutable home and a refuge during the experience of migration.

Breathe – Resist, by Javier del Olmo (Argentina), will invite reflection through large stickers on the facade of one of the warehouses in the Molinera building in Antofagasta. Javier’s projects are characterized by dialogue with memory, the body, and political graphics. 

Alexandre Christiaens (Belgium, Wallonia-Brussels) is a Belgian artist who develops a photographic and video work that emerges from his direct experience of the world. His practice explores the connections between landscape, humanity, and nature from a sensitive and critical perspective. He has exhibited in Europe and Latin America, and his works are part of prominent public collections. At SACO1.2, he presents Robinsong .

Rodrigo Aros Gho (Chile) is a musician, visual artist, and art history graduate. His work intertwines sound, performance, and digital from an experimental perspective. During the biennial, he will perform a sound intervention called Resonances , activating instruments from diverse backgrounds using real-time technological tools. He will also participate in a musical performance at the opening of El espacio que queda (The Space That Remains) by artist Coco González and students from the Liceo Experimental Artístico (LEA).

“We want the public to come together, discover the artists’ works, and engage with the proposals they bring to us. This is an open invitation to experience art firsthand, outside of museums and traditional formats. SACO is a living space for encounter and reflection,” said Dagmara Wyskiel, director of SACO.

The exhibitions and activities will be available at various locations throughout the city and the Antofagasta region, with guided tours, meetings with artists, and free mediation sessions for schools, social groups, and the general public. To learn more about each artist and their work, you can visit the Dark Ecosystems section , where you’ll find the complete exhibition program.

Sonia Rammer is supported by Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts Poznan, Poland.
Alexandre Christiaens is supported by Wallonie-Bruxelles International.

materiały: https://bienalsaco.com/