Matías Duville's 'Monitor Yin Yang' Transforms Argentine Pavilion at Venice Biennale

For the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Argentine artist Matías Duville presents 'Monitor Yin Yang' at the Argentine Pavilion. The installation features a field of white salt marked by charcoal lines, creating an unstable cartography that visitors traverse and alter. Curated by Josefina Barcia, the work incorporates a soundscape responsive to Venice's environmental conditions. Duville expands drawing beyond the page into architecture, sound, and duration, using salt and charcoal as materials that carry temporal scales—salt from ancient oceans, charcoal from fire. The project resonates with Koyo Kouoh's Biennale exhibition 'In Minor Keys,' embracing subtlety over spectacle. Duville describes the installation as a living system where matter, movement, and perception are in constant negotiation. The work remains open, continuously rewritten through visitor movement and accumulated traces. Duville emphasizes that transformation is part of the structure, not external. The title 'Monitor Yin Yang' explores tensions between observation and coexistence, elemental materials and technological systems. Duville prefers to keep the work psychologically open rather than illustrating specific contemporary conditions, though he acknowledges that environmental transformations and shifting relationships with territory and technology inevitably inform the experience.