Gabriela Bettini
La memoria de los intentos 5, 2017
Oil on linen canvas. 55 × 65 cm.
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Bettini’s continues her ongoing examination of the capitalist manipulation of nature and forms of resistance to the devastating consequences of this process in the Global South. In ‘La memoria de los intentos’, the artist takes the work of dutch painter Frans Post (1612-1680), often considered to be the first European artist-traveller who explored and recorded the landscapes of the northern Brazil. In this occasion, however, the appropriation does not operate as citation, but as a starting point to call into question the role of landscape painting in the construction of the gaze on nature. Bettini matches the horizon lines of baroque landscape paintings with images of settings from a different time and place. Over these idealized vision of nature, she superimposes contemporary views of land devastated by the exploitation of natural resources or places related with the feminicide of environmental activists executed in recent years.