Works
2023
SPA
Earthquake to myself/ves (WIP)
This expression captures a nomadic journey, blurring the lines between internal and external realms, performance, everyday life, travel, and art. It explores existential questions like "what remains when everything changes constantly?" This unconventional exploration defies typical outcomes, presenting a raw, unpolished blend of endings and beginnings, reflecting on the constant reshaping of identity and the illusion of unfolding and reuniting.
The transdisciplinary artwork revolves around the relationship and mutual composition between an identity in transit and various creative mediums. These include writing (poems and non-fiction prose), traveler's objects, audiovisual elements, photographs, live performances, and an unfinished 10-meter-long painting in a ongoing state of being traveled, dreamed, created, and lived.
By placing emphasis on the value of the artistic process and integrating the artist's life into it, the aim is to transcend the idea of art as a mere product. The outcome is a living work in progress (WIP) where the artist doesn't separate from the creations, interacts with them and visitors, humanizing places of exhibition, and seamlessly integrates these interactions into the global piece.
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Exhibited in:
* Estados de Tránsito Expo, Centro Cívico Can Verdaguer, Barcelona, 2023
Journey - Nomadic- Identity- Artist life - Experiential art - Dreams - Autoethnographic creation - Anti-teleological art - Existential wander - Process art - Living artwork
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Arte Fuck Psyke (re-edition)
Limited re-edition of the Artist Book, an artistic object which contains transdisciplinary material such as: poems, paintings, posters, QR to video performance, fanzines, QR to a Relational Art web Project where people can see a collective in situ experience participate uploading different media artistic expressions to create collective resonances.
It adds to the previous edition: Information about the origin of the book and a chronology of experiences, new performatic and collective experiences lived in Spain with Coline Gene and the Association Portes D'Entree @portes.dentree in the International Art Residency Can Serrat @canserrat.
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This format is a 15 x 15 cm traveler size with serigraphy book cover. The books are available in @laraposapoblesec and by direct contact with the artist.
Transformation - Identity - Violence - Gender violence - Institutional violence - Breakthrough - Healing - Feminism
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Mutar Trama
This is a platform that collects face-to-face and virtual transdisciplinary artistic experiences shared through narrative practices, which understand the encounter as a salutogenic and aesthetic object (WIP). It is a collective relational art project co-founded with Lila Dagna.
Among the projects that are being compiled, we have performative, narrative, audiovisual and graphic experiences carried out since 2021 in Argentina, Spain and with remote participation from different parts of the world, carried out in artistic, public and academic spaces.
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https://mutartrama.webflow.io/ (WIP)
Relational art - Identities - Artivism - Narrative practices - Resonances - Salutogenesis - Rhizome
Pull-Push
This figurative painting is about the possibility of setting boundaries as an action that is in our hands: both, pulling and pushing, opening and closing, saying yes or no, can be done and have expanding effects in reality.
The collage includes a game piece found in the streets of Valencia located in the middle of the chest, as a game player, and pieces of a poster presented in an academic conference in the same city: crosses of painting done in a performance as a symbol of the action of self transforming, and white pieces of the same poster falling behind the image, almost like garbage, related to the concept of breaking the idea of fitting into academic rules, bureaucracy, and the dominance of intellectual language over creativity.
Boundaries - Consent - Self possibilities - Transformation - Creation - Anti academicism - Anti institution - Bureaucracy
2022
SPA
Mutar Trama I
This painting is a corollary of a conceptual artwork created for the last page of the book Arte Fuck Psyke, which became a poster to be presented at the 1º Iberoamerican Congress on Narrative Practices and cultural melting of Valencia, Spain - Decolonising narrative practices.
The participation was as a psychologist and artist, and the presentation was through a performance where the idea of getting out of violent personal experiences through the collective weaving and the creation of preferred narratives was told, while parts of the words MUTEAR TRAUMA (to mute a trauma) were crossed out with paint, becoming MUTAR TRAMA (to mutate a plot).
The main performatic action was to use the academic space and professional privilege to make an artivistic manifestation by artistic unconventional and anti traditional ways.
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Congreso Iberoamericano de Prácticas Narrativas, Facultat de Ciències Socials de la Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain
Identities - Breaking silence - Collectivity - Preferred narratives - Dignification - Trauma - Fight against violence
Novo Esis
This performance emerged at the Internacional Artistic Residency Can Serrat (Catalunya), from the need of creating some collective material after going through a crisis around the purpose of making a serie of self portraits (WIP). The crisis was about feeling the impossibility of finding any other piece of self representation to finish them and the interrogation about the reason for this obsession with one's own identity, questioning if they were an expression of individualism.
After a period of rejection of these paintings, NOVO ESIS arrived as a creative opportunity to celebrate the community life surrounding at the residency, and also as an answer to the crisis: the impossibility of self representation without the presence of a collective environment in it.
The artwork was created as a collaboration with the Porte d'entrée Association, a space of support for social integration of characters, in co-participation with Coline Gene. In this context, a character named Lilu made an apparition including some specific actions such as leaving nightmare’s elements behind (and sharing resonances about them), a spreading out ritual (through trust and consent), and a collective ritual of potential with live music (voice, ukulele, flute).
Identity - Character - Transindividual dream - Self expansion - Collective ritual - Collective potential
2022
ARG
Arte Fuck Psyke (Infinite wings edition)
Arte Fuck Psyke - Infinite wings edition for giving a voice to a transdisciplinary play that transcends the individual to the collective (2022), is an Artist's book made in a self-managed way during the years 2018 to 2021 in different geographical points of Argentina and Chile. It is composed of paintings, photographs and texts with a hybrid format between poems and elements of a play. The work originates from the need to express a process of transformation that has as a germ in situations of violence lived in first person and breaking with them by jumping to another reality as an authentic and affirmative action.
This event was the presentation of this book, turning to an exhibition of paintings contained in the book, and projections of videos which crossed transversally the concept of the book and became part of it. There were also other videographies resonating with this prompts from other artists and a live music show by Vicki Zwin, whos songs are also part of the artist book presented.
This first edition of the book was completed with an Epilogue created after the interactive theater play with the same name had taken place. This material was the corollary of this collective artivistic event. The limited edition of 66 books was sold and distribuited in Argentina, Spain, Andorra, UK, Chez Republic, Switzerland, Germany and France.
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El Atelier, Mendoza, Argentina
Transformation - Identity - Violence - Gender violence - Institutional violence - Breakthrough - Healing - Catarsis - Feminism
2022
ARG
Movement Fair
Tour of sensory proposals by body dialogues about the boundaries of movement, space and time, taking dancing, theater and music into an in situ performance experience. This was a collective creation during the first edition of the project conceived by Esteban Hezkibel as a fair, thought as a space for training, research, creation, divulgation, pushing the limits and questioning about the roles, dynamics of creation, exhibition and exchange.
Looking forward to creating live installations in every room of the house where each spectator was a new performer discovering the possible plots going on, this participation was about building a collective dispositive for writing and painting by the trigger of a game. The material arouse grew during the passage of the performances, becoming an artistic object itself, and covering the whole room as a collective memory embodied on paper.
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Espacio Tiempo es Arte, Ciudad de Mendoza, Argentina
Senses - Body expression - Creativity - Movement - Game
Jacarandark
This piece is a transformative performance, navigating from oppression to artistic sublimation through actions and analog noise. Amid a patriarchal and oppressive backdrop, existing as a dissident becomes an act of disobedience against enforced silence in the face of violence, resulting in exclusion and suffering. The performative action arises from the imperative to reclaim one's identity and the power of self-transformation. The creative process encapsulates these effects in a somatic experience, embodying self-absorption, cloistered emotions, ruminative thoughts, and fear of persecution.
In the pursuit of sublimation, a dominatrix is hired to employ shibari recreating a specific position to symbolize oppression. Afterward, liberation unfolds, marking the body and transitioning into a transformative ceremony with candles and "sahumos". This process culminates in a symbolic reclaiming, as the marks, representing wounds, transform into colored paint put by the own hands of the author on their body. The entire journey is accompanied by noise music produced and tailored to each phase by dissident identites, and complemented by a postproduction aiming to capture the unsettling transformation.
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Exhibited in:
* Exposición Habitar los Márgenes, Barcelona, 2023
* Videofórum en La Raposa del Poble Sec, LIbrería Feminista, Barcelona, 2023
https://www.instagram.com/laraposapobles
https://www.instagram.com/habitarlosmargenesexpo/
Sublimation - Oppression - Art - Healing - Fight against violence - Ceremony - Ritual - Transmutation
2022
ARG
Arte Fuck Psyke
This material arose from a hard process of survival and transformation, looking for a way out of a situation of violence experienced while working as a psychologist in a security force in Latinamerica. Having tried every institutional complaint route before, and having also organized a public showing of my case with the support of feminists nets and human rights organizations of Argentina (stopped by the pandemic lock down), and after no results, there was a huge need to find another way to transform these experiences.The piece was promoted by the desire to move from individual isolation to visibility with collective support through a political action, breaking the silence and producing artwork from an affirmative and creative place.
Artists from different places coordinated to build a Transdisciplinary Collective Artivistic Intervention, resulting in an interactive journey for the public, through a mix of installations, paintings, poems, collective writing, performance and live music.
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La mansión de Arte, Mendoza, Argentina
https://mutartrama.webflow.io/
projects/artefuckpsyke/inicio
Transformation - Identity - Violence - Gender violence - Institutional violence - Breakthrough - Healing - Catarsis- Feminism
Auto-Re-Trato
The installation is a convergence of photo performance and painting, exploring the concept of self-renewal and the void within identity. Executed in Buenos Aires in 2019, the acrylic-on-canvas painting delves into the theme of self-treatment after a transformative period. During a photoshoot with Sasha Ye'e, the human form engaged in a dialogue with the painting. Various poses and actions were explored, symbolizing potentialities such as embracing the artwork and birthing it.
Enhancing the experience, a wooden structure was incorporated into the installation, providing diverse settings for printed photos. Some images were prominently displayed, while others were nestled within the structure's openings. Additionally, the installation featured a pen and papers, inviting viewers to propose titles for the artwork.
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Auditorio Rivadavia, Mendoza, Argentina
Identity exploration - Breakthrough - Self discovery - Inner transformation - Authenticity - Reflection - Psychological introspection
Ánimas Diablas
Serie of figurative paintings started at a Transfeminist Jam (for photography and painting live models) and other live drawing events in Buenos Aires in 2019. They were connected with poems written at the same period of time, both very perturbing and hard to finish and put into a dialogue.
After moving to Mendoza and feeling a big rejection and disturbance about these paintings, they were kept in another artist ́s studio in order to split from them and get some emotional distance by not living in the same house. with them The serie was completed in this other place during 2020 and the beginning of 2021, in the middle of a hard emotionally process about the personal life related to the topic of the artwork.
Body - Print of violence in the body and what happens when going out from it - Somatic experience of getting out from violence
2019
ARG
Hasta explotar en un millón de flores y orgasmos
This artist book was a first experience of taking art to the streets of different geographical locations. Some of this material took the form of figurative paintings and some became sketching as an exercise of an active meditation reflecting the connection with specific environments and the communities in it with the only goal of capturing something going on during the present without judging or thinking about the result.
Emotions - Artistic process - Local life & communities - Psychological states
Por Puta
This artwork is about “what happens for being a bitch”: a circular relationship between rape’s culture, female’s body built as an object, sexual harassment, guilt and silence. It is a representation of a paradoxical trap that reproduces the misogyny of the patriarchal system over women’s bodies– after being raised in a pushy sociocultural mode that leads into becoming a sex object for men, comes the experience of danger just for being in the public space, accompanied by the social pointing. The “bitches” are blaming for being victims of sexual harassment because of the look or behavior, and punishing for obeying gender rules.
The installation was full of symbols of what makes a woman in our society, like the 15th party as an initiation celebration in Argentina or the archetype of the devil representing how much women are demonized.
In Por Puta the female body also becomes a creative dispositive: its chest had an artist's book inviting to look inside and seeing further beyond the image of a sexualized body, and on its hands there was the possibility of resilience, growing, freedom and empowerment as actions that can be made to transform the social perception of female bodies.
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Museo Municipal de Arte Moderno de Mendoza, Mendoza, Argentina
Rape’s culture - Female’s body - Sexual harassment - Guilt - Silence - Gender violence - Resilience - Empowerment
Other paintings
In the midst of a significant personal breakthrough, which was intricately entwined with the simultaneous dissolution of connections with the institutions (broadly defined), a series of art expressions emerged continuously from within. This visual material evolved into a collection of mixed-media and paper-based figurative paintings.
Gazes - Perspective - Sublimation - Identity - Genderless love - Cultural Critique - Hierarchical Breakdown - Societal Structures - Creative unleashing - Alchemy through art
