Opening reception: Saturday, September 20th, 4 - 6 pm.

Salt and Bone is a solo exhibition by Claudia Kaatziza Cortínez that explores memory, transformation, and the marks left in built landscapes. Photographs of the salt-crystallized ruins of Villa Epecuén and the labyrinthine Chacarita Cemetery in Buenos Aires capture the textures and histories inscribed in architecture and nature, as well as the layered, physical experience of these spaces.

Printed as gum bichromate and toned cyanotypes on paper, linen, and silk, these analogue processes use pigments and light-sensitive chemistry to experiment with color, surface, and materiality. In the Epecuén series, salt-bleached trees rise alongside the skeletal remains of the once-flooded town, reimagined as vivid, spectral figures; in Chacarita, the complex stairwells and galleries convey the immersive, maze-like scale of the monumental cemetery. Across both sites, the works consider how landscapes and structures hold history, memory, and the body’s presence within them, exploring what is submerged and what endures.

Claudia Kaatziza Cortínez is an Argentine/American artist based in New York. She transforms landscapes, surfaces, and texts into material explorations of memory and identity through photography, printmaking, and installation.