Paper short abstract:

In this paper I propose to analyze the poetic and political force of the wetlands of Patagonia in the Land Prints series by Teresa Pereda. Taking the proposals of world-ecology I intend to think the co-dependence action of artistic artifacts as mechanisms of a socioecological care.

Paper long abstract:

Multiple elements constitute the Patagonian wetlands as a place of natural and economic wealth in which the idea of a supposed "environmental resource" for human and animal availability is configured. In this paper I propose to analyze the poetic and political force of the Patagonian wetlands in the Land Prints series by the Argentine artist Teresa Pereda. From the gesture of more than human worlds exposed in the papers submerged by this artist in the Patagonian wetlands, this paper asks whether it would be possible to configure an aesthetic where the lithological, topographical and hydrological elements that make up these flooded areas in southern Argentina converge? Taking as a point of reference the proposals of the world-ecology, this paper proposes to think, contrary to the aesthetic gesture of modernity focused on the individual -the artist or producer subject only-, the co-dependence and the joint or sympoietic action that makes it possible to think of artistic artifacts as poetic mechanisms of a socioecological care. By challenging to some extent the authority and identity of a modern, Western, capitalist vision, Pereda's work and her engagement with wetland materials - not in instrumental, extractive terms, but in terms of an encounter and a response-ability - exposes a kind of resistance to the model of subject-centered aesthetics and politics.