Florencia Levy
Third Atomic Spectral

12.06.–28.06.2026

Vernissage: June 11, 18–20h (the artist will be present)
Finissage: June 28, 12–14h
Artist Tour with Apéro: June 16, 18h
Artist Tour with Apéro: June 19, 18h (The tours will be conducted in English with German translation if needed)

see you next tuesday is excited to present Argentinian artist and researcher Florencia Levy’s first solo show with the gallery, entitled Third Atomic Spectral.

For over a decade, Florencia Levy has investigated the entanglements between extractive practices and the production of contemporary technologies. Her long-term research traces the material trajectories that connect geological formations, industrial processes, and global infrastructures, revealing how the substances that sustain technological systems are sourced, transformed, and circulated across planetary scales.

Third Atomic Spectral brings together this body of research as a material cartography of lithium and its extended networks. Moving across temporal and spatial registers – from cosmological origins to present-day geopolitical circuits – the project follows the life of matter through regimes of visibility, mediation, and control. Lithium, formed in the first moments after the Big Bang as the third element to emerge, becomes both subject and structuring principle: a material that condenses deep time, technological dependency, and extractive urgency.

Levy’s methodology combines fieldwork, interviews, sound recordings, and multi-scalar forms of translation developed across sites such as the lithium salt flats of the Argentine Puna, rare earth extraction zones in China, deep-sea mining frontiers, and fracking territories in Patagonia. These locations are approached not merely as resource landscapes, but as contested territories shaped by infrastructures of power, labor, and environmental transformation.

The installation foregrounds the perceptual and technical systems through which matter becomes infrastructure – and through which infrastructure, in turn, organizes what can be sensed, known, and governed. “Spectral” unfolds here as both method and condition: referring to the remote sensing technologies used in mineral detection, the ghostly persistence of extracted materials as they move through devices and landscapes, and the oscillation between signal and residue, presence and latency.

By tracing these material chains, Third Atomic Spectral exposes the uneven distribution of the environmental and social costs embedded in technological production. It asks what remains inscribed on territories and bodies, and how these inscriptions render the world legible through systems of extraction and power.

Across shifting sites of exploitation, a persistent question emerges: what infrastructures sustain the present, and what forms of life – and loss – do they leave in their wake?

Florencia Levy (*1979, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a visual artist, researcher, and educator whose interdisciplinary practice combines long-term research, fieldwork, and experimental methodologies. Her work explores the intersections of history, subjectivity, and public space, with a focus on extractive processes, technological production, and their social and environmental implications. Working across installation, film, photography, and sound, she investigates how materials, infrastructures, and narratives shape contemporary experience.
Levy studied at Central Saint Martins College of Arts (London) and the Universidad Nacional de las Artes (Buenos Aires). She has received numerous international awards, including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2020, 2015) and the Premio Konex Arte y Tecnología (2022), and has participated in residencies worldwide. Her work has been exhibited internationally in institutions across Europe, Asia, and the Americas.
Since 2021, she co-directs the Contemporary Art Practices program at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín, where she also leads the Art and Science Research Centre. In 2024, she represented Argentina at the 15th Gwangju Biennale. Levy lives and works in Buenos Aires.