Selva Tucumana, 2024

Selva Tucumana, 2024, Clay, metal with artist frame, 117 × 194 cm

Expanding on Gabriel Chaile’s Los jóvenes olvidaron sus canciones o Tierra de Fuego at the ChertLüdde gallery, this work is part of a film that exists only in hints. Instead of a screen, the audience gathers around a three-dimensional fresco—neither a projection nor a moving image, but an “animated” adobe relief. Dried within a frame, the adobe forms a fictional cinema screen. It depicts a tapir, an ancient mammal vital for seed dispersal in the artist’s home region. Chaile highlights Argentina’s native tapirs, endangered by deforestation. His imagined film, an origin story, blurs human-animal boundaries, deepening connections with nature.