Water Gallery was a temporary pavilion located on the Riachuelo-Matanza basin, one of the most
polluted in Latin America. It made visible some of the territorial controversies that emerged from the
declaration of the Buenos Aires neighbourhood, La Boca, as an ̈Art District ̈. This was made possible
through the exhibition of a particular element of the landscape: water.
The pavilion was composed by two material systems: a scaffolding structure and an envelope of
transparent industrial hoses filled with water.
The envelope is composed by two circuits, one containing water from the Riachuelo river and the
other from the neighbour art institution Usina del Arte. The water is pumped from tanks contained
in the pavilion columns to the hoses and back again in a closed circuit.
Water Gallery has multiple configurations, ranging from a closed gallery space to an open public
forum. It housed the event Critical Ecologies, which consisted on three conversations about the
themes exposed in the project, a walking tour through the neighbourhood and two navigations on
the Riachuelo-Matanza basin.
Project team: Constanza Chiozza & Pedro Magnasco
Project type: Pavilion
Competition: Tematic Pavilions - 1rst Prize category “Urban Landscape”
Promoter: General Directorate of Urban Regeneration, Ministry of Environment and Public Space of
the Government of the City of Buenos Aires
Status: Construido (desmontado)
Area: 30m2
Photography: Javier Agustín Rojas