Cubilete is a construction made of wicker.
Its morphology is given by two similar shapes that are inserted one inside the other in opposite positions.
For many years I have been working with wicker and researching its physical and symbolic qualities.
Wicker is a material of foreign origin for Argentina, planted in the Paraná delta for the first time in 1855 by an Argentine hero Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, both questioned and admired for his ideas and actions. Wicker is a useful material for basket weaving. It was incorporated into the territory of the islands to promote the regional economy with the aim of making baskets to transport the fruit that was harvested.
Today wicker is used to make furniture, basketry, and decorative objects. Fruit production was gradually disappearing, and wicker plantations are economically supported with great difficulty. Industrial materials, especially plastics, are gradually replacing the laboriousness of both obtaining the wicker rod and the craftsmanship of weaving.
Starting from the history of the material that relates in principle a bet on the economic future of the region but with its disconcerting and unpromising present, I was building a symbolic field where I perceive each wicker rod as a member of a society. Each rod is an individual with its own characteristics but with the ability to be part of the fabric that builds the network. Some very different individuals, curved rods or with particular formal variations, are removed from the set and are thrown in a corner of the workshop. Other rods, when required to adapt to the general shape, break and become part of the discard.
In Cubilete two geometric anthropomorphic forms are inserted one in the other, they are two bodies, two societies.