How do you transport the memory of what has been silenced? The Argentine artist Gabriela Acha, galardonada with the Maestro Biennale of Monopoli Prize 2025, proposes an answer that is, at once, a political statement and an act of poetic resistance. Your project, the Mobile Museum, transforms the artist's body into a nomadic architecture: a museum that does not wait to be visited, but goes out to meet life.
In a world that demands new ways of circulating and living, Acha bets on the human scale. Carrying showcase backpacks on his own back, the artist shifts the center of gravity of institutional art towards the street, towards the friction, the furtive glance and the dialogue. It is a performance with a low footprint and high emotional impact., where walking becomes the main tool of cultural dissemination.
In this traveling museum, the public is not a passive spectator, but an interlocutor in an intimate experience that challenges the rigidity of the traditional walls of cultural facilities.
The origin of this piece stems from Acha's childhood as a collector of fossils and minerals., but it crystallizes in a contemporary urgency: recover the invisible legacy of women in the natural sciences and arts. Inspired by the figure of Catalina Beaulieu—a key collector for the National Museum of Natural History of Uruguay whose work remained in the shadows—, Gabriela Acha turns her installation into an act of historical justice. Just as the planet struggles to regenerate its ecosystems, This work seeks to regenerate our collective memory.
