Biography
She was born in Montpellier, France, in 1971. She has since then lived in San Pedro, Buenos Aires moving later with her family to the city of Salta, Argentina.
Since 1989 she lives between Salta and Buenos Aires, where she started studying the Image and Sound Design career at the UBA, University of Buenos Aires, she also attended photography courses with Juan Travnik.
In 1997 she joins the Tribune of Salta Newspaper to work as intern of photography.
In the year 2000 she is awarded with the Photography Schollarship of the National Fund for the Arts and receives the Subsidiy for Artistic Creation of the Antorchas Foundation to create “Salteños”: a photographic essay about the urban culture of Salta City. Once finished, she won the price of the FiftyCrows International Fund for Documentary Photography (San Francisco, EEUU) as best Latin American essay. In the year 2000 this same project was chosen as the best Port folio in the Open Event of Photography of Buenos Aires.
“Salteños” was exhibited in Buenos Aires, Madrid, San Francisco (EEUU), Charleroi (Belgium), Paris, Salta, Salisbury (England) and London.
In the year 2001 she receives a schollarship from Trama Program (Espigas Foundation) with the “Quinceañearas” essay. Meanwhile, she also works as photographer in long films productions as well as camera man.
Part of her work belongs now to the collection of the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires.
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.
1. The oil-painting photographies where a very popular kind of photography in Argentina in the middle of the XX century, many of these photographies where made out of photographies of dead family members. I look for them, I find them and I picture them in the houses choosing the perfect place for the shoot.
I feel the death nearby. I feel the dead ones.
I photograph to see.
I witness again and again the pass through death and life.
2. In general terms, how would you suggest to approach your work?
I would suggest to see my work in an intuitive way and also however you feel like.
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'm into photography and so are my referents and favorite artists, some of them are: William Eggleston, Nan Goldin, Martín Chambi, Lewis Carrol, Diane Arbus, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Masahisa Fukase, Rio Branco, Robert Frank, Stephen Shore, Humberto Rivas, Weggee, Andreas Gursky, Sujimoto, Pierre & Gilles, Larry Sultan, Grete Stern, Liliana Porter, Julia Margaret Cameron, David Hockney, Rineke Dijkstra, Bernd & Hilla Becker.
4. Choose works or exhibitions from the last ten or fifteen years which in your opinion were very significant and explain why
It was very significant to me the cinematographic production, because I worked in it, and because a new panorama has merged out of this industry in the last 15 years.
