Natalia Karbabian, Camila Oets, Denise Bande, Pablo Pakciarz, Danny Scherman
Curator: Catalina Bagnato Irigoyen
February 11 – March 4, 2026
Opening: Wednesday, February 11, 7:00 pm
Presentation of “Buenos Aires en 100 Palabras”: Saturday, February 28, 5:00 pm
Cassia House presents Metropolitan Life, a group exhibition bringing together works by Natalia Karbabian, Camila Oets, Denise Bande, Pablo Pakciarz and Danny Scherman, curated by Catalina Bagnato Irigoyen. On view from February 11 to March 4, 2026, the exhibition proposes a sensitive reading of the experience of inhabiting Buenos Aires from within its unceasing pulse.
Far from a panoramic or monumental gaze, the works pause—or stumble—within the urban flow, paying attention to its inhabitants, their minimal gestures, and to those spaces that aspire to endure even while knowing they are, in essence, ephemeral.
We understand the metropolis as a living beast: one that devours and shelters us, that moves us and shapes us.
The works form an ode to the structural–structuring chaos that hastily sketches the outline of Buenos Aires. The artists portray the disorder and fragility of the urban realm, infuse it with color, and reinvent it as part of their own poetics. Thus, chaos becomes an essential condition of the Buenos Aires experience and of artistic practice—of our own identities as inhabitants of this marvelous and brutal space. As a whole, the exhibition functions as an affective archive of metropolitan life, revealing the city as a collective and ever-changing construction. An attempt to treasure images, buildings, and gestures that slip into oblivion within the continuum of urban chaos..
It is a minimal gesture of attention (precarious and fleeting) in the face of an overflowing machinery. The artistic practice of looking, recording, and insisting becomes a way of inhabiting the city without disappearing into it: because if metropolitan life does not stop, at least let it not pass unseen.
- Catalina Bagnato Irigoyen
If metropolitan life does not come to a halt, this exhibition proposes at least a gesture of pause. A space where the everyday becomes visible and where the city, marvelous and brutal, reveals itself as a construction that is always unfinished.
As part of the exhibition, on February 28, 2026, Cassia House will host the open microphone of Buenos Aires en 100 Palabras, an initiative of the City Government: a public reading of the winning stories from the most recent edition of the contest, adding the written word to this network of perspectives on urban life.
We would like to extend our special thanks to Bodega Canteros, which will accompany the various events of the exhibition, joining this collective experience where art, the city, and hospitality come together.
