helvetropicos

This spring, Villa Bernasconi invites the helvetropicos platform, which brings together artists living in Switzerland who have a deep connection with Latin America. Helvetropicos explores contemporary forms of mestizajes as hybrid identities that emerge from the encounter be-tween different visions and systems of knowledge. Más acá de lo (ir)real is based on the idea that what we consider ‘real’ never has a fixed existence, but is instead shaped through historical processes that remain in constant tension. The exhibi-tion brings together fifteen artists and as many perspectives, sensibilities, influences, poetics, distinct imaginaries and emo-tional shifts linked to a Latin American genealogy. From sound and video installations on metamorphosis to sculp-tures that speak of care and the transmission of rituals, from draw-ings and paintings that crystallise memory to anti-monuments con-ceived from feminist or queer perspectives, the exhibition invites us to rethink images and the ways in which they help us build connec-tions: to sing reality, to dance it, and to strike it so that it may vibrate differently.