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The worlds of work and social issues play a very significant role in the work of Gabriela Golder (Buenos Aires, 1971), which often assumes the format of videos and installations. In this exhibition, Gabriela using a 12-channel video installation, hd, no sound, 12' in loop, puts a contemporary body, as she says, side-by-side with a series of the lithographs of Guillermo Facio Hebequer (Montevideo, 1889-Buenos Aires, 1935), made at the beginning of the 20th century, which painfully portray the working world. In doing so, recreating these scenes contemporaneously and with other means, she builds a kind of dialogue between two historical moments and two diverse supports such as paper and the video screen. In this dialogue, as in a kind of game of mirrors, there is a confrontation between past and present, as well as a tension between two supports and two techniques of representation. "The twelve lithographic prints that make up this series were published for the first time in the magazine Nervio (no. 21, January 1933)." (HKB Translation) --Page [14].