In the exhibition Aguas Verdaderas, Federico Pérez Villoro explores the domestication of water and the environmental impacts of hydroelectric industries. Aiming to challenge the technical expectations of a variety of navigation technologies, his work alters our optical relationship with satellite images to disorient our gaze. Projected onto a layer of vapor generated by a large-scale humidification system, a video installation tells the story of the Tietê River, a body of water that has undergone violent processes of rectification of its meanders. The liquid dispersed in the environment destabilizes the material distinction of rivers as phenomena separate from more subtle water manifestations.
