Universidad Blas Pascal | Córdoba | September 2015

At a time when the art world has devalued the material realisation of works and the specific skills of craftsmanship, becoming almost exclusively concerned with ideas and concepts, Sara Galiasso’s work emerges as a dialectical interplay of opposites, without losing sight of the discipline’s traditions. In its dual physical and expressive nature, her work is defined by a mode of appreciation shaped by the tensions arising from intersections and convergences —between the natural and the cultural, the rural and the urban, the artisanal and the industrial, among others.

These are treasured elements that the artist absorbs and reclaims as part of her personal history, as material traces of her explorations as an amateur collector. In the act of giving new life to discarded objects, it becomes clear that, for Galiasso, these remnants embody time in matter: they are markers of endurance, deterritorialisation and transfiguration. Her work seems intent on speaking of change without fixing meaning, for it takes shape when the viewer appropriates its formal language —not so much through the isolated work itself, but through the reconstruction of situations and encounters staged within the exhibition space, across the chain of spatial and temporal coordinates that the artist proposes as a strategy of expression.

— Gabriel Francisco Gutnisky