SANTA [#01]
Installation by Maria Gutierrez. June2012. Santa Gallery at Patio del Liceo, Buenos Aires.
Portraits by Lucía Galli. http://luciagalli.com/
Summoned by Santa Gallery, together with Argentinean artist Federico Lamas, Maria Gutierrez work is an altar, a device through wich the observer becomes the protagonist of the ritual, the saint. The final resault of the experience is the "Estampita" (little image from the saint printed in paper to take home with you and have it for protectios usually).
These printed images of the "saints" are deliveried at the closing of the show a few weeks after the opening.
The digital images where uploaded to the gallery' s facebook site and everybody was able to tag themselves, share these images, spreading the work throughout the internet. This resulted in thousands of poeple having witnesed this performance and continue to share it, keeping the work alive even a long time after its closure at the gallery.
it was a surprise to see friends that couldn' t come to the show to make their own "estampita" by photoshop and sending it to the site with the message "I was there". This was the proof tha the work keept rolling and reinventing itself, keeping it alive.
Facebook link to the portraits: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.401199813250164.80663.335527003150779&type=3
you can also see them here: http://autenticomundomalibu.wordpress.com/artists-work/estampitas/
