From cave paintings to contemporary practices informed by posthumanist thought, the figure of the animal has accompanied the history of art as reflection, metaphor, and companion. A symbol of the instinctive and the wild—of that which exceeds the human—it has served as model, mirror, and otherness: a way of thinking the living and imagining other forms of coexistence.

The poem by Charles Bukowski that gives this exhibition its title brings to the surface something that art has always known: the persistence of the vital, even when attempts are made to contain it. That “bluebird in the heart” is the pulse of life that insists on remaining, what beats beneath the surface.

The works gathered here construct a contemporary bestiary where the animal is not offered as motif or taxonomy, but as a form of relation. The animal appears in gestures of contact, in acts of looking, in the ways we coexist and share a common territory with other beings.

Participating artists include Foto Estudio Luisita, Santiago García Sáenz, Florencia Böhtlingk, Gabriel Baggio, Lucas Di Pascuale, Elena Loson, Martín Sichetti, Sofía Quirno, and Catalina Schliebener Muñoz. Each of their works—across generations and media—proposes a different form of connection between body, image, and matter: from the intimate archive to landscape painting, from drawing as reading to collage as dissent.

Hay un pájaro azul en mi corazón (There’s a bluebird in my heart) brings together artistic practices that, through distinct languages, question human centrality. Each work rehearses a way of coexisting, of conceiving the image as a shared space between species, materials, and affections. In this ensemble, the animal is not an external figure but a form of consciousness: a disposition toward closeness, listening, and attention.