Argentina

Monitor Yin Yang is Matías Duville’s first monumental-scale drawing made of salt and charcoal. It is conceived as an interdisciplinary work that brings together video, installation, sound and drawing. The work explores a paradox of our time: the future long feared has already arrived, while the human capacity to perceive life and beauty amid tragedy persists. Like a piece of music, it makes no distinctions between form and content, and can be read through musical ideas such as improvisation, performance, movement and tempo. Duville creates a complete environment rather than an autonomous object, turning to the concept of Yin and Yang to develop a walkable drawing of a landscape within a soundscape that unfolds as a surveilled territory activated by the movement of visitors. As a temporary chart, it becomes an instrument for navigating unstable terrain, rather than depicting a fixed landscape. Salt and charcoal act as both symbols and media. As residues of seas and forests, they combine geological and human time. By creating a shared ground that is represented, traversed and surveilled, Monitor Yin Yang establishes a space of tension and cohabitation: an intimate yet collective experience that oscillates between ruin and potential, energy and debris, highlighting the crucial role of mediation in human survival.