The Art and Poetry of Mercedes Resch in the Face of the Historical Threat of the Great Drought

Abstract This article aims to investigate about the relationships between art, poetry, land, landscape and territory from the visual pieces of the artist, poet and teacher Mercedes Resch, a resident of Cura Malal, a rural town in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, a solid geographical and historical witness to the long process of national modernization that, from the beginning of the 20th century to its current neoliberal present, has exposed the land of that place to a violent patriarchal desertification campaign. The work of Mercedes Resch will allow us to explore, on the contrary, a landscape full of latent life forms that permanently resist the historical threat of the great drought.

摘要 本文旨在通过艺术家、诗人兼教师梅赛德斯·雷施（Mercedes Resch）的视觉作品，探究艺术、诗歌、土地、景观与地域之间的关联。梅赛德斯·雷施居住于阿根廷布宜诺斯艾利斯省乡村城镇库拉马拉（Cura Malal），该地区作为兼具地理与历史意义的坚实见证，承载了20世纪初直至当下新自由主义时代的国家现代化漫长进程——这一进程将当地土地暴露于一场暴力性父权式荒漠化运动之中。与之相对，梅赛德斯·雷施的作品为我们提供了探索空间，得以窥见一片充满潜在生命形态的景观：这些生命形态始终在抵御大规模干旱所带来的历史性威胁。