Marcela Cabutti at BIENALSUR, South Africa venue.

Con Nuestros Continentes Errantes, Marcela Cabutti propone un gesto simbólico y material para volver a unir Sudamérica y África, territorios que alguna vez compartieron un mismo suelo.

With Nuestros Continentes Errantes, Marcela Cabutti proposes a symbolic and material gesture to reunite South America and Africa—territories that once shared the same landmass. Presented at the Origins Centre of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg as part of BIENALSUR, the exhibition draws on geological memory to reflect on the separation of the continents and the possibility of reunion among landscapes, histories, and cultures. The project continues an investigation initiated by the artist in La piedra que predice and articulates science, art, and embodied experience as tools of knowledge.

Curated by Clarisa Appendino and Tammy Hodgsfiiss, the exhibition takes as its point of departure the theory of continental drift and the studies of South African geologist Alexander du Toit, later revisited by Argentine geologist Dalla Salda. Building on these investigations—developed across Argentina, Uruguay, Namibia, and South Africa—Cabutti constructs a trajectory that links the Río de la Plata and Kalahari cratons, ancient foundations of Pangea and Gondwana, reinforcing a shared reading of the deep origins of both continents.

The exhibition brings together a range of interrelated formats: sculptural installations, photographs, sound works, drawings and cartographic archives, as well as editions and objects. Highlights include installations made with stones, soils, and ice; photographic series that explore the horizon as a point of contact between African and South American coastlines; sound works that register the “heartbeat” of the earth; drawings based on historical maps and vitrines with archival materials; and handcrafted editions that expand notions of circulation and drift.

Far from a purely scientific reading, Nuestros Continentes Errantes mobilizes drift as a political and cultural metaphor. Through performative gestures, historical references, and materials drawn from both territories, Cabutti invites a rethinking of imposed separations—geographical, colonial, and symbolic—and imagines new forms of connection between Africa and the Americas, where art emerges as a space of active memory, connection, and repair.

Marcela Cabutti at BIENALSUR, South Africa venue.

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