Maximiliano Tineo
Hearth
Boîte Editions, Lissone — 2025
By narrating the experience of migrating from Argentina to France, Maximiliano Tineo explores universal themes shared by those who, wherever they may be, face the challenges of uprootedness related to language, cultural differences, and feelings of loss, loneliness, and nostalgia.
To migrate is an act of dispossession.
Leaving one’s country and setting off far away, far from all land- marks, from paths already travelled, from familiar faces... then arriving in a new territory, with its own rules, forging an armour and wandering the streets filled with people in the greatest and heaviest solitude. Sometimes you stay floating in the middle of the ocean without drowning, between the waves and the sea wind, the one that tears the flags, before distance confuses your senses.
The work combines photographs, personal documents and drawings. It takes a personal look at various aspects of uprootedness, the act of migration and the notion of “home”.
