Ten Argentine Artists Ask How We Live With Technology in Mar del Plata
A new show in the Argentine city of Mar del Plata invites visitors to think about how people and machines relate. "Desiring Machines" is on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art there until November 2, and it brings together work by ten Argentine artists. ArtNews reported on the exhibition.
The show is curated by Augustina Rinaldi. A curator is the person who chooses the artworks and decides how they are arranged in the galleries, so the exhibition's ideas come largely from her selection.
The title comes from the French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. "Desiring machines" is a term from their writing, and the exhibition draws on their work to argue that desire, the pull people feel toward things, ideas and each other, can drive social change. In plain terms, the show asks what people want from their tools and how those wants shape the world around them.
ArtNews describes the exhibition as asking visitors to imagine a healthy relationship with technology. That is a question many people face in daily life, from phones to the software that sorts what they see online. The show offers art rather than a single answer to it.
One of the largest works is Device for Exhaling the Tremor (2025), a sculpture by Celeste Martinez Abburra. It is part of the group of works the show gathers from its ten artists.
For anyone planning a visit, the key date is November 2. After that, the exhibition closes. The Museum of Contemporary Art is the place to see the works in person, and the show is worth a look for anyone curious about how art responds to the machines we use every day.
