[Fernando Brizuela] Roars in the Shadow

 

Centro Cultural Contraviento inaugurated a new exhibit by the artist Fernando Brizuela, who presented Roars in the Dark a series of his artwork Vuelo Nocturno (Nighttime Flight) and his well-known Monstruos de marihuana (Marijuana Monsters).

The work, which is free and open to the public, looks into fear, darkness and what’s unpleasant in the context of the fusion of the two themes that guided the cultural space: the current one about Blackness, and Culture and Drug Trafficking, from 2024.

With his particular signature look, the Argentine artist works with materials that are turned into objects and subjects of provocation. The series is made up of eight 35 x 50 cm and three 100 x 70 cm paintings.

Moths—nocturnal insects, friends of darkness—are really the counterpart of butterflies being butterflies.

“Moths are the reflection of what we rather not see; they flutter about in the limits of consciousness until its presence becomes undeniable. If cannabis is still a monster in our society, who created it? What nourishes it? More importantly, how is this symbolic structure intertwined with the violence that lurks in the Paraná River?,” this is what Mariana Gioiosa asks herself in the room’s text.

In the small gallery in the Centro Cultural Contraviento, the moth ensemble will come across monsters whose main characteristic is being made of cannabis leaves.

In the end, this is an exhibit that focuses on insects that are spurned every day, but are also present in our dreams, fears and sorrows.