Llanura Pampena

Salto, in the llanura pampeana, shapes my identity. The countryside is not mere scenery but a vital backdrop defining rhythms, ties, and memory. In my work, this geography becomes a terrain to explore the intimate, the unconscious, and the surreal.

Salto is a city in the north of Buenos Aires Province, located in the heart of the llanura Pampeana one of Argentina’s most important agricultural regions. Its economy, like that of the surrounding area, is deeply tied to agricultural production: soy, corn, wheat, sunflower, and livestock. This productive matrix not only defines labor and economic life, but also shapes the modes of sociability, the rhythms, and the routines of its inhabitants.

The Pampas, with its flat and open geography, silently yet persistently marks lived experience. The horizon, always visible and distant, influences the perception of space and time: there are no mountains or obstacles interrupting the gaze, which creates a sense of vastness, but also of repetition. Everyday life is organized around this expanse: the seasons, sowing and harvesting, rains and droughts.

Growing up in Salto means being shaped by this rurality. The countryside is not an external landscape, but an inevitable context that defines childhood, relationships, and identity. From the most practical aspects—such as agricultural work cycles or the relationship with nature—to the most symbolic, the countryside structures the way life is lived and imagined.

In my photographs, this presence is translated into a setting that is not merely decorative: the countryside emerges as a vital backdrop, a space charged with both collective and personal memories. The Pampas, which for many represents monotony, becomes in my work a terrain for exploring the intimate, the unconscious, and the surreal. The open horizon of Salto is, at once, a point of departure and a limit: a geography that has shaped my gaze and my way of inhabiting the world.