Screening of 'Vía Versus' and Poetry Reading with María Salgado

Vía Versus is an audiovisual piece composed of two poems—or two filmed poems—aiming to evoke two very specific places: northeastern Argentina and Ourense, through the voices and stories of some of their inhabitants, who navigate encounters and disconnections with origins and belonging that are difficult to define. Above all, it was a journey into an unknown territory and a displacement from the mediums that Argentine filmmaker Clarisa Navas and Spanish poet María Salgado originally came from, working alongside Lucas Olivares, Marta F. Salgado, Luis Molina, Marta Orozco, and Chus Pérez Limia.

The piece was filmed between northeastern Argentina—Formosa and Corrientes—and Galicia—Pousada and Verín. Drawing on these concrete territories, as well as the languages, stories, and ways of life of their inhabitants, the work explores what remains hidden or silenced by historical processes of repression and forgetting. Two poems written by Salgado accompany the film as both spoken voices and printed texts available to the audience, creating a dialogue between word, image, and territory. More sensory than discursive, the film unfolds as a shared journey in which both artists move from their respective languages and places of origin toward a still-emerging common space. This process of collective openness, lived together with the production team, gives rise to a work of open meaning that extends beyond the screening and unfolds across different forms of experience.

> The session will be preceded by a poetry reading by the artist María Salgado.