La meseta como paisaje. Emancipación sensible del territorio norpatagónico en la obra de Julieta Sacchi.

Abstract

The aim of this work is to analyze the scope of the concept of landscape as applied to the North Patagonian plateau territory, by considering artist Julieta Sacchi’s work of art called Museo meseta (‘Plateau Museum’) (2010,1015). Sacchi’s site specific artistic experience took place in the outskirts of Balsa Las Perlas, a small village located on the margins of Limay river, near the densely inhabited city of Neuquén. Firstly, I seek to examine the concept of artealisation, proposed by Alain Roger, to provide an account of the artistic processes that support the construction of the landscape so as to critically relate such approach, anchored in the European aesthetics, to Julieta Sacchi’s experiences. Secondly, I intend to observe the North Patagonian plateau landscape from its singularity, considering the origins of an imaginary which is marked with years of territorial displacement, as seen in the photographic records of the 19th Century war campaigns. The decolonizing dimension present in Sacchi’s proposals can be brought to the foreground by means of this conceptual exercise, which results in the re-imagining of the North Patagonian landscape from an emancipated perspective.