Dear colleagues and guests, I hope this message finds you well.

Kind Regards from the South can be considered a correspondence in which, instead of words, there are drawings, watercolors, earth as pictorial matter, and sketches of everyday life in what we call the South. More specifically, one could say that the gathered images pause their gaze on Argentina and Chile, or Chile and Argentina, and perhaps even on other possible latitudes. The selection is measured by the closeness of the artists to Casa Belgrado, as part of a living community that the space has shaped over the course of its 12 years, where points of view intertwine to project and tension presents and futures from the South.

Within this framework of bonds and imaginations, the work of Lucía Sorans activates the earth as living and symbolic matter. Her pictorial gesture, in dialogue with the body and movement, puts into circulation memories and energies within a transforming telluric imaginary. The artist works with collected and processed soils as a pictorial element, putting them in relation to materials such as mica and glitter. Meanwhile, Pablo Cavallo’s series of watercolors investigates the dissociation between the photographic record and the resulting image. His works transform everyday scenes into ambiguous atmospheres in which the recognizable becomes uncertain, and memory oscillates between what is one’s own and what belongs to others. In dialogue, the work of Jorge Caperan is configured as a visual diary. His drawings start from photographs taken with his cell phone — especially during his time at Casa Belgrado — and articulate everyday scenes crossed by media images. In them appears a tension between the intimate and the mediated, in a transit between Chile and Argentina.

The works of Lucía Sorans, Pablo Cavallo, and Jorge Caperan trace a cartography of the experience in the South through routes, materials, and everyday scenes, serving as a vantage point from which to sustain other ways of looking at the world. Here, the experience of the South is not just a geography but a living network of bonds, displacements, and presences that find — and will continue to find — in Casa Belgrado a space from which to exercise practices of persistence.

— Mercedes Lozano