Carolina Aguirre

Présentation

Carolina Aguirre’s mythopoetic works question the experience of belonging as it relates to location, nature, and otherness. Belonging is chosen as an embodied and emotional access point to wider themes of environmentalism and identity politics resulting from mobility. The interdisciplinary practice incorporates painting, video, sculpture and performance and is guided by materiality, spirituality, and tenderness.

 

The painting process, which forms the foundation of the practice, feels both archeological and psychoanalytical. On the floor, the painting becomes an environment which is watered, dug and walked around. Materials like sumi ink, shellac, charcoal and natural pigments earth the paintings further. Mythical, instinctual, and ambiguous narratives materialise out of political concerns and muddier inner worlds. The scenes play out on aerial landscapes that allude to land as seen from a flight home, or browsed longingly on google maps. Birds, which feature often, also see land in this way. Here there is no hierarchy between plants, animals, symbols, and humans. Most recently, the incorporation of body imprints serve as metaphor of the territorialised body and act as presence through absence (joining an artistic tradition that dates back to Palaeolithic cave paintings).

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Education

2023 Royal College of Art, MA Painting

2013 UAL Central Saint Martins, BA Graphic Design / Moving Image, 1st Class Honours

2011 UAL Central Saint Martins, Foundation in Art and Design, Distinction

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023 BUFFER 2, Guts Gallery, London

2023 Sieve of Secrecy, Beacons, Munich 

2023 Going in… Bye, St Chads, London

2023 Soft Monuments, Frestonian Gallery, London

2023 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London

2023 Ghost Notes (duo show), FOLD Gallery, London

2022 Pigeon Park 2, Manor Place Baths, London

2022 34th International Exhibition, KCUA Gallery, Kyoto

2022 NOW Introducing, Studio West, London

2022 Autumn, Karen Tronnel, London

2022 Summer, Seasons, London

2022 RAW, Soho Revue, London

2022 Women Who Run with the Wolves, Liliya Art Gallery, London

2022 Just like Honey, Sheriff Projects, Paris

 

Awards

2023Basil. H. Alkazzi Scholarship Award at Royal College of Art

2022 Royal College of Art and Kyoto City University of the Arts Exchange Programme