MARCELA JARDÓN (Buenos Aires, 1964).
"Mutating perception VI".2017.
Acrylic and oil on canvas.
Size: 146 x 90 cm.
Degree in Visual Arts. National Professor of Visual Arts. National School of Fine Arts Prilidiano Pueyrredón, Buenos Aires. Her works have been exhibited and published in America, Europe and Asia, in institutions such as the University of Valencia, Sociedad Argentina de Artistas Plásticos de Buenos Aires, the Opera House of Sydney, Australia, the Kanazawa Art Center Citizen, Japan, the Museo Universidad de Alicante, the Bangkok Regional Office of The Rockefeller Foundation, the Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona, the Departamento de Expresiones Artísticas de la Universidad de Panamá, the Museo Social Argentino in Buenos Aires, the Museo Provincial de Quilmes in Argentina, the Museo de Arte Moderno in Buenos Aires, the Museo y Archivo Histórico Cabildo de Montevideo in Uruguay, the Museo de Aveiro in Portugal, the Museu de Reus, the Museo La Neomudéjar in Madrid, the Centro de Arte Santa Mónica in Barcelona, the Reial Cercle Artístic de Barcelona, at the Spectrum Fair Miami (2018), LA Art Show, Fair (2019) and in several galleries. Some of them already belong to private and public collections in Argentina, Spain, Canada, Panama, Australia, Italy, Germany, France, UK, Japan, Sweden, USA, Mexico, Netherlands, Belgium, among others.
Work in public collections -Catalogue of the Department of Fine Arts and Cartography of the National Library of Spain, BNE. -Library Specialising in Contemporary Photography of the Forvm Foundation for Photography, in Tarragona -AICOA -Art Fund of the University of Valencia. -Pinacoteca Universitaria, University of Panama, Panama -Procreation-Postcreation. womanifesto2003. Bangkok Regional Office, The Rockefeller Foundation, Thailand. -The University of the West of England, Department of Creative Arts, Centre for Fine Print Research, Bristol. Awards and recognitions 2004 -First Prize, Azulazul Audiovisual Competition, Barcelona;-Finalist in Canariasmediafest04. 2002 -Finalist in Canariasmediafest 02. 2001 -Finalist for the Discoveries of Photoespaña 01;-Third Prize in the Photography Competition "mirar i veure" University of Valencia;2000 -Accessit Photography Competition "Festa Major de Gracia 2000" Barcelona. 1995 - Mention in the Small Format Exhibition at Neumann Gallery & Assoc,Bs As; 1993 - First Prize Salón Sociedad Argentina de Artistas Plasticos, Bs As.1992 -First Prize VII Salón la Actualidad en el Arte, Buenos Aires; -Second Prize IX Salón de Artistas Plásticos Municipalidad de San Isidro; -First Prize II Salón de Almagro, Buenos Aires; 1991 -Third Prize IV Salón Arte Joven, Municipalidad de San Isidro; -Second Prize VIII Salón Anual de Artistas Plásticos, Municipalidad de San Isidro; 1990 -First Prize III Salón de Arte Joven, Municipalidad de San Isidro. His artistic practice is at the intersection of drawing, photography, video, new media, installation, visual poetry, artist's books. He investigates the relationship between images and language as symbolic productions. The exploration of hybrid forms, vision and production process spans various disciplines and distances between the past and the present, the analogue and the digital. In his projects he incorporates texts as "graphic repentisms", fragments of texts, decontextualised quotations from different sources, as well as original photography, and the recreation of fragments of his own earlier works. He works using everyday images, rescuing previous images, simple objects, exploring the dark places of the unconscious, controversial concepts, and the hidden histories that often underlie what surrounds us.