Vereda Pólder is a series of four photographs that explore urban and social aspects of the elevated pavements of the Buenos Aires neighbourhood of La Boca. While in the rest of the city of Buenos Aires they do not usually exceed twenty centimetres in height, some pavements in La Boca rise above the roofs of cars. This peculiarity arose mainly as an informal response to the repeated flooding that the area has suffered since the foundation of the city in 1536, flooding homes and businesses. From the mid-1990s onwards, various infrastructural works managed to contain the floods, and the veredones of La Boca remained as witnesses of another time. However, the polders are nowadays an extension of domestic life and the first space where the family, social and commercial relations of the neighbourhood are interwoven.

Digital photography
50 x 40 cm (42 x 23,5 cm)
Edition of 5
2024

Part of Pica Pica, Bajada Cordón
An exhibition on the Buenos Aires sidewalk
Curated by Martín Huberman
October 5 - December 22nd 2024
PROA21 - Fundación Proa
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