During her residency in ‘ace Leslie Multcher, Assistant Professor, Area Head 2D Foundations, University of Texas at Austin. USA., inquired about the culture of Buenos Aires and, from this search, is interested in working with notions of wealth/materialism- abundance/waste in clear opposition to poverty and the need to collect the leftovers from the first, looking in there those materials liable to be recycled. At this point she is very engaged and interested in the livelihood of the cartoneros, unemployed people who collect carton/board and other recyclable materials to resell in order to make a very modest income.

As much of her previous installation work is concerned with the material being recycled or reused from installation to installation, in the project at ‘ace the artist will reinforce the concept proposing that after deinstallation of the piece happens, the pieces are set outside for the cartoneros to collect and recycle.

ARTIST STATEMENT

My research is a theoretical and practical investigation of order and chaos filtered through my own desire and drive for order. I locate my work in the context of humanity’s drive for ideals, and by extension, the cultural fascination with Utopia in all its forms. In many ways, these ideals seem epitomized by modernist architecture so I appropriate the work of figures like Le Corbusier and Niemeyer to place my work in a historical context. Like these modernist predecessors, my work begins and ends with a sincere desire to learn and understand perfection; however, in my case this involves being both critical and skeptical of this impulse.

To realize this research in a physical form, I build structures, landscapes, and objects of attempted-perfection, utilizing paper (once fresh, now recycled) as a primary material. In my practice the use of the model has become the perfect vehicle for idealist thinking, for it is a proposal largely dependent on a viewer’s imagination and optimism, and so might be the form that embodies perfection most completely. I am fascinated that a utopian vision is always just beyond reach and that the drive for perfection is often impractical, difficult, and futile.