Jimena Sarno + Axel Krygier: taracatá trabaja

SSB001July 2021, 10-inch vinyl (bone)English, 10 x 10 inches, 17 double-sided prints, b/wEdition of 275With text by Gelare Khoshgozaran Jimena Sarno + Axel Krygier's taracatá trabaja uses the traditional Argentinian folk song, Malambo del Hornerito, as a point of departure. It is an ode to the Argentinian national bird—the serially procreating, monogamous, and hard working hornero who builds his home from spit and dirt. Created through long-distance collaboration with Axel Krygier, the musical composition of taracatá trabaja is derived from the two onomatopoeias in the folk song: taracatá, characterizing the sound of laborious work (i.e. fields being plowed and nails being hammered) and chapalea, a verb evolving from the sound of squelching in mud. In taracatá trabaja, the hand drawn hornero rests on the porcelain surface along the music score, reminding one of the complexities of making a home, and of labor and its imbued ideas of meritocracy, while reclaiming pleasure, well being and