Matías Duville to Represent Argentina at Venice Biennale with Salt and Charcoal Installation

Matías Duville will represent Argentina at the 61st Venice Biennale with the site-specific installation "Monitor Yin Yang," curated by Josefina Barcia. The project transforms the exhibition space into a traversable landscape built with salt and charcoal, expanding drawing into an environmental, sonic, and performative dimension. The installation is conceived as an open cartography that activates through visitor movement, with charcoal drawings on a white salt floor creating an unstable topography of mountains, paths, and horizons that emerge and dissolve. Salt, as crystallized residue of ancient oceans, evokes geological time, while charcoal condenses processes of combustion and transformation, staging a dialogue between permanence and change. Sound, developed by the collective Centolla Society together with Alvise Vidolin and the Center for Computational Sonology, translates real-time environmental data from Venice—such as atmospheric conditions and air quality—into sonic variations that intertwine with the sound of footsteps on salt, creating an evolving acoustic landscape.