My latest body of work is the result of an unrelenting research of materials and supplies. In an almost casual and brief gesture, I transform myriad of objects, gathered from everyday life, and compile them into different arrangements and situations. I attempt to give order by measuring my time, my work and my possibilities with certain materials and objects – obsessive repetition allows me to develop unique and personal systems. The work reveals in itself the process of its making, its failure or triumph.
I face every work with curiosity and try to understand how I can intervene the least to achieve the most. I look for an inner logic to my process that might lead the viewer to apparent conclusions.
I like to think of my work as an organized world that welcomes chaos and embraces the power of simplicity.
En los últimos ańos mi trabajo se enfoca en una continua investigación de materiales. En un gesto casi casual, transformo una infinidad de objetos, recolectados de la vida cotidiana y los compilo en diferentes arreglos y situaciones. Intento crear orden por medio de sistemas que me permiten medir mi tiempo, mi trabajo y mis posibilidades con ciertos materiales y objetos. La repetición obsesiva me permite crear sistemas únicos y personales. El trabajo revela en sí mismo el proceso de su elaboración , su fracaso o triunfo.
Me enfrento a cada trabajo con curiosidad y trato de entender cómo puedo hacer mínimas alteraciones para obtener máximos resultados, como puedo crear una lógica interna que pueda conducir al espectador a aparentes conclusiones.
Me gusta pensar en mi trabajo como un mundo organizado que acoge el caos y celebra el poder de la simplicidad.
Selected Biographical Information
Education / Training
- 2001-2007: MFA, Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, Czech Republic.
Prizes / Fellowships
- 2015-2016: Keyholder Residency Program, Lower East Side Printshop, New York, United States.
- 2000-2007: Scholarships – Master’s Study Program, Embassy of the Czech Republic, Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Montevideo, Uruguay.
- 2008: Chateau, Centre for Contemporary Art FUTURA, Czech Republic.
- 2004: Informal Architecture Workshop/Marjetica Potrc, Salzburg International Summer Academy, Hallein, Austria.
Solo Exhibitions
- 2014: “Measuring in Spears“, Berloni Gallery, London, England.
- 2014: “Rak on Tur”, Brno House Of Arts, G99, Brno, Czech Republic.
- 2013: “Uno“, Subte-Centro Municipal de Exposiciones, Montevideo, Uruguay.
- 2011: “Tres/Three/Tri”, Galerie Ferdinanda Baumanna, Prague, Czech Republic.
- 2010: “Things named after numbers”, Ps122, New York, USA.
- 2010: “Dos”, Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo, Montevideo, Uruguay.
- 2008: “Part-time artist”, AM180, Prague, Czech Republic.
- 2006: “Some girls wander by mistake”, Galerie Mladych, Brno, Czech Republic.
- 2004: “Thanks for coming”, Galerie im Alcatraz, Hallein, Austria.
- 2004: “Jelenovi pivo nelej (Czech palindrome)”, Foundation for Contemporary Art, Gallery Jeleni, Prague, Czech Republic.
- 2003: “The things made by people”, Foundation for Contemporary Art, Gallery Jeleni, Prague, Czech Republic.
Group Exhibitions
- 2014: “Tunnel and Lighthouses“, Wallspace Gallery, New York , USA.
- 2014: “Hin Mah Too Yah Lat Kekt”, Gallery AMU, Prague, Czech Republic.
- 2013: “5X5 Castelló 2013, Premi Internacional d’art Contemporani, Espai d’art Contemporani“, Espai d’art Contemporani, Castelló, Spain.
- 2013: “Global Locals”, Gallery NTK, Prague, Czech Republic.
- 2012: “Vistas”, University of Maryland, Maryland, USA.
- 2011: “Prague Biennale 5”, Prague Biennale 5, Prague, Czech Republic.
- 2010: Circulo de Bellas Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain.
- 2009: “Melting the Pot”, Czech Cultural Center, New York , USA.
- 2009: “Pocket Utopia, Two-week residency program “, Pocket Utopia, Brooklyn, USA.
- 2008: “Move on”, Futura Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic.
- 2008: “When I was a little boy, I used to play with girls”, Galerie U Bílého jednorožce, Klatovy, Czech Republic.
- 2008: “Contemporary Czech Cubism”, Old town City Hall Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.
Publications
- Silvina Arismendi, Planked Boutique (Paris: Onestar Press).
- Berloni Gallery, Measuring in Spears (Berloni).
- Jiri Ptacek, “For The Perfect Stranger: Home Inside Out“, Fotograf Magazine, 2012.
- “The Things Made by People”, Fotograf Magazine, 2008.
- Karel Cisar, “Silvina Arismendi”, Labyrint Magazine, 2008.
- Jiri Ptacek, “Silvina Arismendi”, Umelec Magazine, 2004/2.
Collections
- Collection of Estee Lauder Companies Inc., New York, USA.
The core of my work lies in the dichotomy between interior and exterior space. I explore the idea of the urban architectural space as a restraint, one that denies both the body and the landscape. Lately I’ve been analyzing how the monumentality and infinity of landscape can relate to our perceptions of the body. My installations are ephemeral; they are intricate and expansive constructions, impossible geometries that are meant to be broken.
La idea que anima mi trabajo se encuentra en la dicotomía entre espacio interior y exterior, así exploro la arquitectura urbana como una limitación que niega tanto el cuerpo como el paisaje. En mis proyectos más recientes he analizado cómo la monumentalidad y lo ilimitado del paisaje natural pueden relacionarse con nuestras percepciones del cuerpo. Mis instalaciones son efímeras; son intrincadas y expansivas construcciones, geometrías imposibles que habrán de romperse.
Selected Biographical Information
Education / Training
- 2009-2011: Master of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, United States.
- 2002-2007: Bachelor in Fine Arts, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia.
Prizes / Fellowships
- 2012: Beca para residencia artística, Banff Centre-Ministerio de Cultura, Banff Centre, Ministerio de Cultura, Banff, Bogotá, Canada/Colombia.
- 2010: Phelan, Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship, San Francisco Foundation, San Francisco, CA, United States.
- 2008: Beca Fulbright -Ministerio de Cultura para artistas, Fulbright, Ministerio de Cultura, Bogotá, Colombia.
- 2007: BFA with Honors/ Grado de Honor, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia.
Solo Exhibitions
- 2015: “The Soft Gesture“, The Wooden Floor – Sayago&Pardon, Santa Ana, United States.
- 2015: “El gesto fuerte, el gesto suave. Estructuras blandas y transformaciones“, Centro Cultural Británico, Lima, Perú.
Group Exhibitions
- 2014: “Después de lo anterior“, Galería Santa Fé, Bogotá, Colombia.
- 2014: “Tránsitos y articulaciones”, Galería Club El Nogal, Bogotá, Colombia.
- 2013: “Nuevos Nombres”, Banco de la República, Bogotá, Colombia.
- 2013: “Periscopio”, Banco de la República, Bogotá, Colombia.
- 2012: “Especies de Espacios”, Galería Club El Nogal, Bogotá, Colombia.
- 2011: “Gridlock“, AC Institute , New York, NY, United States.
- 2011: “Numina Femenina“, Consulate General of Mexico, San Francisco, CA, United States.
- 2011: “Liminal Takes“, Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA, United States.
- 2011: “Artecámara 2011“, ARTBO, Bogotá, Colombia.
- 2010: “Chicas Chicas Chicas”, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, D.C., United States.
- 2010: “Spoon full of sugar “, Kitsch Gallery, San Francisco, CA, United States.
- 2009: “Chicas, chicas, chicas”, Cámara de Comercio, Sede Kennedy, Bogotá, Colombia.
Collections
- Museo del Banco de la República, Bogotá, Colombia.
- Sayago & Pardon Collection, CA, USA.