Refuges

Installation
Variable dimensions
Buenos Aires, Argentina
2019-24

I base this work on the construction of the Oiketicus kirbyi, also known as the basket bug or basket weaver, a species native to Latin America. It is the females that weave the basket in which they will spend their entire lives. A shell-shelter where they will later lay their eggs.

I gather the necessary elements. The rule: do not cut anything living, only what I find fallen, dry. As I walk, I keep an eye out to collect anything that fits into the bag I always have folded in my purse.

I use branches, bark, leaves, flowers, and other organic materials. I bind everything together, weaving with cortadera, a rhizomatous-rooted plant with very fine leaves ideal for weaving.

The choice of these natural raw materials serves as a reminder of the construction of one’s own home. Rebuilding lost shelters. Building a new possible future.

 

Exhibitions:
Centro Cultural Recoleta | Plemar Festival 2024
Manzana de las Luces | “The Sonority of the Landscape” 2024
Centro Cultural La Tomada | “All Greenery Will Perish” 2023

Forget-me-not

Site-Specific Installation
Video + Object + Ramas + Photo Transfer
2017
Quema la Nave Gallery
C.A.B.A, Argentina

Like a constellation, I embark on a magical encounter with a family album created by my maternal grandfather, a nurse and photography enthusiast. This led me to research my ancestors, their places of origin, the paths of their lives, and, in turn, to undertake a personal journey.
Transfers, embroidery, a genealogical tree with lightboxes, branches sewn with red threads, and a sea that subverts time.
Scientifically named Myosotis, Forget-Me-Not is the name of a plant with small blue or pink flowers that tend to cling to clothing. In some traditions, it is linked to the memory of a primary or primordial emotion and is considered a reminder of loved ones.

 

Laughter upon laughter,
love however you can,
sand on your back
like water
passing by.

Little treasures
wandering
like every other,
subtle,
fleeting.

The lost word

Installation
Photography + Video
Patagonia, Argentina
La Esmeralda, Uruguay
2017–2019

I invite women to inhabit different territories, to connect with the scents and sensations unique to each environment. I encourage them to seek that forgotten wisdom, that word that is no longer a word, that has been lost.

These artistic residencies took place between the summer of 2017 and the winter of 2019 alongside Delia Paez (writer), Carolina Sesa (painter and performer), and Soledad Fraccia (visual artist) in La Esmeralda, Uruguay and Patagonia, Argentina.

The desert, the sea, the forest, the river. As Annie Dillard says, “The landscape is not just something we see, but something we feel; it transforms us as we inhabit it.”

Transformation

Installation
Video Performance + Photography
2018
Buenos Aires, Argentina

“We all enter this world with an animal double,
a twin creature, a sibling in the forest.”
—From Bestiary by Flor Garduño

 

A performer existing in a suspended, liminal time.
A space-time that is an in-between.
A being that divides, multiplies, loses form, transmutes.
A silver circle, a ritual

A video performance inspired by the traditional African tale The Leopard Woman, which tells the story of a woman with the ability to transform into a leopard. I propose a dialogue, a reading of the zoo-anthropomorphic event—the transition from woman to leopard—through the concept of becoming as analyzed by Deleuze and Guattari in A Thousand Plateaus: “Becoming produces nothing other than itself.”

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