Notes on trends in contemporary Argentine audiovisual in the work of Andrés Denegri and Lucía Seles

Abstract

In this article I will address the works of Lucía Seles and Andrés Denegri in order to bring into dialogue two very different experiences that allow us to think about the condition of the cinema device in the current Argentine audiovisual context. The hypothesis from which I start is that, in both cases, although in different ways, the artists recover what Deleuze calls, in cinema, having a thought-image. Andrés Denegri offers a metalinguistic look at the medium and works on the forms of memory, investigating the relationships between cinema and memory. Lucía Seles proposes new ways of re-inhabiting movie theaters and telling stories. Her cinema is, for several reasons, a cinema of the bodies and all the work she does, especially when montage, allows her to create new affective cartographies in which one becomes another.