Intimate Cartographies is not merely an ´aceNITE that shows the work of three artists—it is a compass that points not north, but toward connection. A space where winds, gestures, and marks trace new forms of proximity, reminding us that what we leave behind continues to shape what we become.

In a world increasingly shaped by uncertainty and distance, three artists from distinct geographies—Anna-Maria Bogner (Austria-Germany), Chloé Hajjar (USA/Lebanon), and Carol Mannas (Canada)—converge in Buenos Aires to create a sensory cartography of intimacy, atmosphere, and temporality. Through their unique practices, each artist offers a reimagining of space, the body, and the systems that invisibly connect us across time and territory.

Anna-Maria Bogner (Austria-Germany) presented her site-specific installation Common Sense in the Políglota Room, exploring spatial perception as shaped by cultural and historical contexts. Through minimalist interventions, she traces ephemeral lines in architecture, inviting us to reconsider our relationship with the spaces we inhabit. Her work creates a pause, allowing us to listen to space as a language, revealing new ways of perceiving form and void.

Chloé Hajjar (USA) intertwines metalwork, printmaking, and creative technologies in a practice that interrogates the dynamics of innovation and obsolescence. Echoing the rise and fall of civilizations, she harmonizes hand-finished materials with digital tools to consider how craftsmanship is both endangered and revived. Her pieces are contemporary relics—vestiges of transformation—inviting us to reflect on what is lost, preserved, and reinvented in an age of rapid technological advancement.

Carol Mannas (Canada) presented an edition of her piece Alisios, produced during her residency at Proyecto´ace, inspired by the winds and currents of South America. Alisios emerged from a meteorological insight on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland: that warm trade winds traveling from South America soften the climate of Northern Europe. Her work connects hemispheres and histories—winds, etching, the skin of the Earth and the skin of the body—becoming surfaces inscribed by weather, time, and experience. Through her work, Mannas highlights the intimate relationship between natural forces and the human body, making the invisible forces of wind and weather tangible and deeply personal.