Artists
Argentina
Paloma Ludueña
The Size of a Hug
09.09.24 04.10.24
Paloma Ludueña is an artist born in Santa Fe and raised in La Rioja, who, after spending some years in Córdoba, lives in Buenos Aires. Present at ´ace thanks to the Semillero 2024 grant, awarded in collaboration with the Williams Foundation, Paloma came to our studio to produce a site-specific textile installation.
Her coming and going as a daily habit permeates all her practices. Her last years she spent in Córdoba were strongly influenced by the close relationship she maintained with the small flat in which she lived, of which the last two were open to the public as an exhibition space and art gallery. From the most private to the quasi-public, Paloma rethought the conventional boundaries of a house/household, and her home, its context and her practice became recurring themes of interest.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I situate my practice as the third variable in an equation of complementary forces between bodies and architectures. An affective pulse with the intention of interceding and transforming spaces. I use fabric to embrace, to be, to insist and to inhabit. I find in repetition a wisdom specific to the moment and place that surpasses the limits of the latter two. I relate to weaving not only as materiality but also as a logic of thought. I believe in everyday discourse as a theoretical framework and a storehouse of raw material and in contradiction as a formal posture.
BIO
Paloma Ludueña
1998 | La Rioja, Argentina
Lives and works in Buenos Aires
EDUCATION
Bachelor in Visual Arts, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
EXHIBITIONS
Cómo narrar un cuerpo desplazado. Nube Baja, Buenos Aires, Argentina
¿De qué están hechas las palabras? Tres Salas, Córdoba, Argentina
¿Después de cuántas copias se pierde el original? Centro Cultural Casa de Pepino, Córdoba, Argentina
¿Hasta cuándo? Experiencias para manipular un tiempo. PLEGABLE, Córdoba, Argentina
OTHERS
Coordenadas (residency). Buenos Aires, February–May 2024
Raíces (residency). Aconquija, Catamarca, January 2023
Proyecto Crisálida: OBRAR 2023 Award (with Guiomar Barbeito)








Related Activities
Exhibitions, Open Studio, Fellowships
Echoes of Dwelling
Artists in dialogue
03.10.24
“Echoes of Dwelling,” the open study of October, suggests the interconnection between the spaces we inhabit, elements of nature, and the way time transforms in the works of the featured artists. During the gathering, we enjoyed a communal lunch and shared ideas and collective conversations with Paloma Ludueña, Evelyn Ramp, and Malena Tatián, who were residents during September thanks to the Semillero 2024 Scholarship, awarded in collaboration with the Williams Foundation.
-Paloma Ludueña (La Rioja) thinks her work around the conventional uses of a domestic space, understanding textiles not only as a material, but also as a logic of thought. In doing so, Paloma inhabits spaces and spreads her weavings wherever she wants to stay.
-Evelyn Ramp (Oberá, Misiones) explores through her artistic practice the crossings around the binomial nature-urbanity from material and sound cut-outs as poetic elements of the territory. During her residency, she worked on the riverside spaces of Misiones and Buenos Aires.
-Malena Tatián (Córdoba) insists through her curatorial research on the suspension of that certainty that names time as a continuous and forward line. In her residency, Malena sought to bring together related forms using the wall as a board for the superimposition of anecdotes, works, situations and notes where that linear temporality was transmogrified into something else, something different.













Exhibitions, Open Studio, Fellowships
The Size of a Hug
Paloma Ludueña
03.10.24
Paloma Ludueña finds in repetition a wisdom of the moment and place that surpasses the limits of the latter two. A young artist in residence from La Rioja thanks to the Semillero 2024 Grant (in collaboration with Williams Foundation), Paloma shared a site-specific installation with the audience of ´ace during the Open Studio on October 3rd, 2024.
Paloma relates to fabric not only as materiality, but also as a logic of thought, discoursing on the everyday as a theoretical framework, as a storehouse of raw material and on contradiction as a formal stance. In recent years, her home, her context and her practice have become recurring themes of interest in her work, something she works on through site-specific textile installations in which she uses fabric to embrace, to be, to insist and to inhabit.
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