Between October 3rd and 12th, we received Marcela Caballero in our workshop, an Argentinian artist in search of a poetics of nature through engraving and expanded graphics.

Marcela works inspired by the configuration of different natural systems, in which she finds the gesture that unites and synthesizes her formal search, printing a mark that unifies worlds. Universes that refer to the vegetal sphere; that evoke zoomorphic figures or that emerge as sexual organs, move through different spatialities using various digital and analog techniques. From 3D programs such as Rhinoceros, to contemporary calligraphy resources or different graphic languages, Marcela Caballero makes use of these and other resources that account for what she is still wondering about.

Through her extended micro-Residency, Marcela was able to materialize a new body of work in our workshop within the framework of her Erostopía project, (which speaks of the dilution of relationships in the ocean of technology that crosses us as spectators and protagonists) through the use of embossing and photoengraving techniques with inks in different shades of white.

Marcela’s works are proposed as artifices between the viewer and their fantasies, to involve them and extend the limits of their imagination, as a topia of passion, as delicate caresses that feel like a provocation to generate a unique erotic model of delight, in the path of what we know and what is revealed to us. Since 2019, her work has focused mainly on the search for the erotic as an appeal to enjoyment, understanding this as a vital fact that moves us to action. Eroticism also brings into play our lack, our loneliness, our anguish in different layers of space/time that immerses us in our own unique and unrepeatable spatiality. Art and Eroticism share forms, colors and textures that display a sensuality that goes beyond established limits, they share a vibrant territory that needs to be explored and encouraged to approach a sensuality derived from satisfaction.