Uruguay

Margaret Whyte has developed a pioneering body of work, distinguished by both its conceptual strategies and its formal decisions. Focused on social and gender concerns, her expansive production resists constraint or simplification, claiming an essential place in the analysis of art history from a South American perspective.

Antifragile is an installation that intertwines elements drawn from different systems, allowing each to affect and transform the meaning of the other. Various textiles are combined with technological remnants – obsolete machines, motorcycle helmets, debris – forming an antifragile assemblage that gains intensity through the friction of its components. These interwoven relations function as a model of political thought.

The concept of antifragility, articulated by Nassim Taleb, describes systems that not only endure disorder and instability but grow stronger and more adaptive through them. In this sense, Margaret Whyte’s work embodies that condition: it emerges from tension, error, and vulnerability as generative forces. Her practice does not seek to neutralise chaos but to metabolize it, transforming uncertainty into an active and poetic form of resistance that expands the ways in which we perceive and understand the world.