Artist Statement
As an artist, I am interested in problematising the inherited beliefs and social constraints that define our society, placing us on a constant struggle with our human essence and environment. By the same means, reflecting on our relationship with nature and the ecological crisis that emerges from it, while examining the most intrinsic aspects of human behaviour.
I do not limit myself to a single artistic medium, on the contrary, I use various techniques, being digital photography and curatorial narrative the most common. I prioritize the treatment of the idea before the form.
As a curator, I approach similar themes, problematising on today's socio-cultural conflicts such as the supremacy of capitalism, current neoliberalism and social convictions inherited by our personal history and social context. My aim as a curator is to promote contemporary art and to stimulating an attitude of self-reflection, questioning our contemporaneity and the experiences that define us.
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Born in Buenos Aires (1985), she moved to Uruguay in 1994. She holds a degree in Industrial Design from Universidad ORT Uruguay. In 2010, she enrolled at FAC (Fundación de Arte Contemporáneo) in Montevideo, Uruguay, and developed her practice as an artist and curator under the mentorship of Uruguayan artist and curator Fernando López Lage. In 2014, she relocated to England to continue her curatorial studies at the University of Essex, completing a Master’s degree in Contemporary Art Curatorship. She was awarded the Eduardo Víctor Haedo FEFCA 2015 Scholarship from the Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC) to support her Master’s. In 2016, she co-founded the artistic collective COCO with three Uruguayan artists. She moved to Madrid in 2017 and completed a Master’s in Internationalization of Cultural and Creative Sector Management (2017/18) at the Complutense University of Madrid. She is member of the National Visual Arts Commission of Uruguay (2025 to 2029).
She has participated in various group exhibitions such as Ficciones (2011) at Fundación Atchugarry in Maldonado, Uruguay, with the photographic work “Self-portrait.” Llamale H (2012), with the photographic series Princesses, where she won second prize. De cajón (2013) at the cultural center of the Mexican Embassy and the Salto Biennial with the work “Sociedad Chiclera.” She won the Paul Cézanne Prize at the MNAV (National Museum of Visual Arts) with the photographic series “Contemporary Ethnography.” In 2016, she was selected to exhibit at the first edition of the Ibero-American Art Awards at the Brazilian Embassy in London with the work “Sociedad Chiclera.” She participated in the group show Sobreexposición (2017) with the series “One-selfie” and “Self-portrait,” curated by Juan José Santos Mateo (Spain) at the EAC (Contemporary Art Space). In March 2018, she exhibited the work “El Espacio Elevado” in the group show Intervention, curated by Juan José Santos Mateo (Spain), held at the Subte exhibition hall (Montevideo). In 2019, she took part in the exhibition Self-portrait/Self-referentiality of Proyecto Ace with the video “67 Mosquitos” in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 2020, together with COCO, she participated in the Mercosur Biennial in Porto Alegre with the installation “Iletradxs.” In 2021, she presented the collective work La sal no sala, together with a group of visual artists, at the contemporary art and culture fair Cósmica, held at TRIBU, Montevideo. She was part of the group exhibition Flores alongside María Mascaró and Natalia de León with the work “Estrellas Terrestres” at the Solari Museum in Fray Bentos.
She won her first curatorship by competition, HypersSEXY (2012), a group exhibition held at T8 of the EAC in Montevideo. In 2013, she co-curated Perpetua (carne) at the Engelman Ost Collection. In 2015, she organized and co-curated Abject, Subject together with her Master’s colleagues at Art Exchange, Essex. Ascendencia, Descendencia (2017) was her fourth curatorship, exhibited in London, Paris, and Montevideo and produced by COCO. The Things We Leave Behind (2018), co-curated with Clara Rocha, was exhibited at the One Paved Courten gallery in London. She joined the research group on curatorship Conversación Abierta at the Alcalá 31 museum in Madrid (2018). In 2020, she curated and organized the exhibition RIP with COCO at the CCE (Centro Cultural de España) in Montevideo. In May 2021, she curated the performance Banana Premium by artist Javier Abreu, held virtually at the Diana Saravia Gallery, as part of the curatorship The Bright Side of Precarity. In March 2022, she co-curated the exhibition M.arte with COCO at Centro Cultural Verde. In July, she curated the solo show Sostenidos por Agua by Brazilian artist Verónica Etchenique at the ZOCO gallery in Punta del Este, Uruguay. She partnered with Galería ZOCO and developed curatorial consulting for contemporary artists. In January 2023, she curated the exhibition Fragmentaciones by María Mascaró in Dalarna, Maldonado, Punta Ballena. In May, she curated the solo exhibition Memoria Orgánica by Pilar Barreiro at Fundación Verde in Montevideo. She provided curatorial accompaniment to the project Distancia Antisocial by Gera Ferreira and Katya Peralta, exhibited in Montevideo and Maldonado. She curated and organized, together with Inés Sendra, the photographic exhibition El Naufragio del Tiempo in Maldonado and Montevideo. In February 2024, she curated the exhibitions Obnibulada by Nany Salazar and Territorio Fértil by Cristina Llambí in Maldonado, Punta del Este. In March, the exhibition Carmenta by photographer and artist Deborah Elenter at Fundación Kavlin in Maldonado. In September, the exhibition Resistencia by María Mascaró at La Hoguera cultural space in Montevideo. In October, she curated the solo exhibition Verde Oscuro by artist Cristina Llambí at the CCCC (Centro Cultural Ciudad de la Costa) in Canelones. In March 2025, she will curate the exhibitions Anhelo de lo simple by Nany Salazar at Museo Massoni in Maldonado and Elementos Intangibles by María Clara Rossi at Fundación Iturria.