Arte y poesía en Cura Malal: un corral de piedras donde el paisaje y la comunidad resisten

Abstract

From the artistic, poetic, archival and, fundamentally, collective actions promoted by the members of the Proyecto Hermosura in the territory of Cura Malal, province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and, in turn, from the visual and archaeological work of one of its members and inhabitants of the place, Mercedes Resch, it is possible to read two important movements in this article. On the one hand, the processes of modernization and historical transformation in the community and in the rural-mountain landscape of Cura Malal; on the other, the processes of recovery and preservation of a sense of community and landscape that these historical transformations have left as ruins but that, at the same time, emerge as latent forces when we place our critical lense on them. Art and poetry are, in this way, individual and collective actions capable of making that survival visible, as well as protecting the community of Cura Malal and its natural environment from disappearing.