Artist: Guido Yannitto
Dates: March 20th 2025 to May 17th 2025

What is waiting? It is nothing more than the projection of someone’s desire. Someone longs for something that is beyond their grasp, and there is a period in which they wait for it to happen. Fear is something similar, with the difference that it does not project forward, like desire, but can come from the most unexpected place. Yet there is something akin between desire and fear. If one is nobody, if one believes they are nobody, none of it—neither desire nor fear—can affect them. Neither waiting nor fearing. All of this happens when one has a strongly defined identity. The aspect that interested me most about the novel was the concept of dissolving identity; freeing oneself from hope, freeing oneself from oneself. To me, that was the point, not so much waiting itself: the trap of identity and how it determines everything.

—Lucrecia Martel, interview in Página/12 about her film Zama, 29 September 2017

Guido Yannitto (b. 1981) is a visual artist who has specialised in textile art over the past two decades. Based in the province of Salta, in northern Argentina, he explores materials, colours, and techniques associated with the production of the telar criollo, historically considered a traditional craft of the region.

In his exploration of the expanded field of this ancestral technique, research into colour plays a predominant role. The influence of the fluorescent and vibrant colour palette of Andean cultures is strikingly evident in much of his work.

It is inevitable to draw a connection between the operational and representational systems established between a computer’s digital technology and the analogue technology of the loom (considered, since the Industrial Revolution, the first computer), as both rely on a binary system to construct the architecture of form.

Most of Yannitto’s pieces emerge from the processing of an image through digital technology, where the pixel—but also the glitch (unlike in traditional looms)—occupies a central role.

To understand the artist’s work, it is essential to consider the relationship between territory, imagination, and identity.

Lara Mármol