Sabrina Amrani is pleased to present Calculadora de Derrotas, Gabriela Bettini's third solo exhibition at the gallery.
We venture forth… we do not know, we cannot know… we venture forth.
A small-format painting shows a carefully sketched map: the reproduction of a cartography made in the eighteenth century, when the Río de la Plata basin was already something else. After centuries of colonization, records of territories multiplied: cartographic traces, drawings, engravings, reproductions of botanical, maritime, geological, and even astronomical studies. We never knew whether we needed them. In the painting of the cartography, the river seems suspended between its tributaries and its course toward the ocean; a suspension in its defeats, between its sources and what is to come, that which is not yet there but is sensed.