BIO-ART: The forms of the living

The Itaú Visual Arts Award each year supports projects in the intersection between art and technology, establishing special categories. In 2022, the turn was for Bio-art, a discipline where the living matter is explored through diverse poetics.

Based on methods that are usual in the field of science Ana Wingeyer develops The inner life of moths.

The transformation processes are displayed through materials, tools, and photographs.

A chromatic sequence that tells of an inter-species dialogue outside the scales and hierarchies normally established.

Twelve bottles with a folder of protocols and experimental notes are presented on a night table.

Each bottle shows different samples of microorganisms collected in areas of the Paraná River area and its surroundings.

With this dozen of Biogeneradores de Microbestias Biogenerators of microbeasts, Luciana Paoletti explores the possibility of new biological connections in a territory under permanent environmental threat.

In an era dominated by production systems and materials that negatively impact on our environment, alternative projects emerge and give place to new biomaterials.

Karina Guadalupe Salinas works in cooperation with insects and plants. Together, they create a Textile Architecture: a cloak designed from kindness and patient observation.

The fluids that are part of the female cycle have always been considered ominous, despite of being a fundamental part of the life’s pulse.

Ana Laura Cantera reverts this prejudice by creating a weaving of bio-threads composed of menstrual blood and algae.

Towards a new configuration of ideologic and material systems.

Eggshell emerges from the concern to work on sculpture with materials that do not have a negative impact on the environment.

By using as malleable material a mix of eggshell and starch, Sheila gives shape to a sensuous, pristine, and solid entity.

The persistence of the present by Pablo Loigovine, is composed of several parts.

On a table, a terrarium contains snails that are chewing reproductions of watercolors by the painter Fortuny on the history of police uniforms in Argentina

Some illustrations partially deteriorated because of this process are hanging on the wall.

Next to it, a tablet reproduces an algorithm that attempts to recover in the image what the snails have devoured. An installation that can be read in layers and opens questions regarding time and its reversibility.

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