Faivovich & Goldberg

Since 2006, Guillermo Faivovich (Buenos Aires, 1977) and Nicolás Goldberg (Paris, 1978) have been engaged in an intensive and wide-ranging research project—A Guide to Campo del Cielo—that forms the basis of their practice. Campo del Cielo is located in northern Argentina and was the site of a meteor shower about 4000 years ago. Faivovich & Goldberg combine the roles of scientist, historian, anthropologist, and even bureaucrat, to conduct projects that suggest new ways of seeing and experiencing the terrestrial results of a long ago cosmic event, as well as thinking about its historical and cultural significance. The duo has produced a diverse body of work, laboriously mining the particularities of a singular event, Faivovich & Goldberg illuminate broadly resonant themes: the dynamics between an object and its documentation, the inherent complexities of institutional histories, and the complicated personal, cultural, and national relationships that develop with artifacts. They live and work between Buenos Aires and Barcelona. Highlights of Faivovich & Goldberg’s individual projects include Otumpa (Museo Moderno, Buenos Aires, 2023), ¡Saxa loquuntur! (BARRO, Buenos Aires, 2022), Encuentro con El Mataco (Museo Histórico Provincial de Rosario Julio Marc, Rosario, 2019), Mesón de fierro: Towards the XXII Century (United Nations, Vienna, 2019), En búsqueda del Mesón de Fierro (Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, 2018), Decomiso (ASU Art Museum, Tempe, 2018), Los hoyos del Campo del Cielo y el meteorito (Fondazione Merz, Turin, 2011), and Meteorit „El Taco” (Portikus, Frankfurt, 2010). Their participations in important international events include Un meteorito para la Sociedad Científica del año 2105 (arteba, Buenos Aires, 2018), Número 11 (Gwangju Biennal, Gwanju, 2016), The San Juan Mass of Campo del Cielo en la Colección Guerrico (Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, 2014), and The weight of uncertainty (dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, 2012).