Her new exhibition “Ofrenda”, at the Museum of Modern Art, allows the visitor to actively interact with her fabrics, patchworks and objects, which transform the space for the public
Several rooms on the second floor of the Modern have been “taken” by Celina Eceiza (Tandil, 1988) and his work “Offering” under the curatorship of Jimena Ferreiro.
An immersive installation of meters and meters of fabric that cover walls, floors, ceilings; You walk on them, joined by seams, which took two years of preparation in his workshop in addition to the collaboration of museum assistants who sewed them by hand.
Drawings, textile pieces, sculptures, patchwork, collage, chalk pastel, plaster, a mixture of industriousness that avoids all formality in the making. Hence the text that accompanies the sample indicates that “his works embrace, envelop and transform the space where the public is a guest-not a spectator”.
The “guest” can lie down on mats, small stools, read a book surrounded by these immense canvases with images of disproportionate beings, exuberant bodies, gigantic feet and hands, soft figures, flowers, fruits, vases, everything comes together so as not to want leave the place, a kind of refuge that isolates you from the hostile outside world.
Eceiza says “I create images that function as contemplatives of the world and at the same time refer to the low, the hidden, the mythical and the sublime but also to the everyday”.
This young artist completed a degree in Visual Arts at the UNA (University of the Arts). In 2016 she was selected as an agent at the Artistic Activities Center and in 2024 she participated in the International Art OMI residency (New York).
He held numerous solo exhibitions, e.g. “The conquest of the kingdom of fears” in Moria Gallery for which he wrote “Life as a delicacy / the unconscious as a treasure / the spirit as a giant / color as a drug / space as a surface of sensations…” ; “I don’t know you like that”Moria Gallery (Mexico), “I’m not from here, nor am I from there” (Chile) and the First Textile Art Biennial of Chile in 2023.
She has participated in collective projects in Omaha (USA), she was selected for the 2019 Braque Prize and we remember her work “Reheated Dinner” that we highlight in our review: a tent in the middle of one of the rooms, batik patchwork where you can enter, sit, lie down, meet and talk with other people.
It was also selected for the Rosario National Hall (2022). Among his trophies: the First Prize for Painting from the Central Bank (2020) and the Konex Diploma of Merit in Textile Art. In 2018 he published his first novel “The Falsifier” in the Tami Metzler publishing house, whose review indicates that it is “a thief self that replaces the voice of the journalist who narrates the milestones in the history of great thefts of works of art as well as the theft of the author for works of her own creation”.
Celina Eceiza lives and works in Buenos Aires. His proposal is to inhabit the work, walk it, reflect, talk about it, something that is not very common in these times when the avalanche of samples gives no respite.
Av. San Juan 350. Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday: free admission.
Source: Ambito
