Pas de DEux, Dreamsong Gallery 2024
Naturaleza muerta con una liebre
Horochowski’s installation references Paul Thek’s The Personal Effects of the Pied Piper (1975-76) in which the artist constructed a vision of the Pied Piper's secret campsite, with personal objects, mice, and a fire laid atop a Persian rug. Equally rooted in a memorable childhood event when Horochowski’s mother skinned, cooked, and served a hare for a campsite dinner after it was inadvertently hit and killed by the family’s car, “Naturaleza Muerta con una Liebre” (2023-24) also alludes to the use of the Patagonia region as a detention site where dissidents were “disappeared” during Argentina’s Dirty War. Vast and sparsely populated, seemingly isolated in time itself, Patagonia has historically embodied the character of disappearance (the Mapuche and Tehuelche indigenous groups were also driven from this land). The installation adopts the memento mori tradition of referencing life’s fleeting and ephemeral nature while evoking memory, family, violence, art history, and the land into a convergence of meaning and narrative that echoes across multiple temporal scales.
