Biography
I was born in Buenos Aires, but my childhood and teenage years were in Posadas, Misiones. I always liked textures, I used to gather pieces of cloth and paper of any kind, sequins, ribbons, melted crayons, candle, sand, Indian ink, cardboard –that is, everything within and out of reach. I worked with the textures I dreamed of, even as a result of nightmares. I could not specify how, or why I began to be attracted by textures –probably because of the lace or embroidered cloth I have always been collecting. What I do know is that they are part of the way I see and feel the world. I need to see, have, and show them. I have always thought it is fantastic to mix, assemble and arrange objects in non-conventional manners and generate new objects.
I have always wanted to be an artist –I changed the piano for fine arts. At 5, I told my Mum, a piano teacher, that I wanted to be a painter -“to paint pictures, not walls”.
Following this drive, I came to Buenos Aires to study in the National School of Fine Arts “Prilidiano Pueyrredón” and obtained my degree in Visual Arts with Paint Orientation I.U.N.A. Today, I am a teacher of Systems of Representation, chaired by Prof. Saggese.
I also worked several years in Art-Therapy for psychotic patients. I was a teacher in the Day Hospital of the Mental Health Dept, Hospital de Clínicas “José de San Martín”, and orator in several Congresses and Seminars organized by APSA (Association of Argentina Psychiatry), and AAP (Argentine Association of Psychiatrists).
When I was a girl I used to create my own “toys” with cardboard, boxes, lace (as collage). This fascination for textures was reflected in my works
with mixed techniques, as the design of bijou (earrings and necklaces). It was this way that the series “START” was conceived, a set of pieces with various materials: cloth, metal, glitter, paper.
In all my pieces there are details that reflect how I feel and see the world. Ornamented, complex, mysterious? Reading is not unequivocal, I think that art can be built.
Vision of art
1. Choose a work that represents you, describe it in relation to its format and materiality, its relation with time and space, its style and theme; detail its production process.
I chose “START I” because it was the beginning of an important part in search of sense and shape. This work started a way to disarticulate the message in order to deeply understand what I was doing. It was as coming back to origin to understand my dialog with plastic elements, and therefore be able to generate other images full of meaning for me.
The series “STARTS” was performed with fragments of a clock I had brought from Misiones to Buenos Aires. My family and mi passion melted in an object that becomes a piece of art. The elements of the piece are acrylic, cloth, metal on chapadur.
2. In general terms, how would you suggest to approach your work?
Swinging; as you get closer you are able to see the details, and as you go farther you see the global aspect. Seducing to attract, go back to understand the texture, and see the design, find the weaving and the threads that lead to experiment the roughness of lace and life itself.
3. In reference to your work and your position in the national and international art fields, what tradition do you recognize yourself in? Who are your contemporary referents? What artists of previous generations are of interest to you?
I do not recognize myself in any specific tradition; however I am very attracted by artists who handle several materials.
Textures dominate me and I feel trapped, I want to be closer to witness their dialog and what they transmit.
These are some of the contemporary artists I like, among others: Carolina Antoniadis, Claudio Roncoli, Beto De Volder, Rebeca Mendoza, Milo Lockett, Lucila Poisson, María Paula Caradonti, Carlos Ara Monti, who was also the Director of my Thesis and Coach.
I like the aesthetic approach that is proposed by the works from several dimensions, and how they express themselves through a single language.
