Matías Duville presents 'Monitor Yin Yang' at the Argentine Pavilion of the 61st Venice Biennale, transforming 500 square meters into a vast salt surface marked with charcoal lines that visitors walk across, gradually altering its appearance. Selected from 69 proposals through a public competition and curated by Josefina Barcia, the installation shifts drawing from a two-dimensional plane into an immersive, bodily experience where opposing forces of yin and yang organize the work's internal logic.
The project matters because it redefines drawing as a habitable, ever-changing geography, using salt and charcoal to embody tensions between permanence and transformation. In an era fascinated by monumental budgets and spectacle, Duville and Barcia advocate for fragility and experimentation as forms of political resistance, while also highlighting the challenges of representing Argentina amid uncertainty over cultural funding and public policy.