CELINA ECEIZA: BODIES IN TRANSFORMATION
The Museo Moderno de Buenos Aires inaugurated Celina Eceiza: Ofrenda, the artist's first solo museum exhibition. It is an immersive project that was produced by the museum in its entirety. The exhibition is curated by Jimena Ferreiro.
In the exhibition that opens at the Moderno, the artist combines techniques and procedures from artisanal textile production such as patchwork, collage with collected elements and, more recently, plaster and chalk pastels, which give a new fluidity to the images. Her compositions are populated with soft figures, fragments of morphing bodies, flowers and fruits from the best still life tradition, as well as interwoven references to 20th century art movements and various layers of cultural history, including Greco-Roman antiquity, early Christianity and 1960s hippism.
Eceiza dresses the architecture as if space was a body and organizes it through rooms of different proportions that are always an invitation for hospitality.
Built as if they were states of mind, these spaces propose to be experienced by a body that forgets its rational order and is transformed into pure will of sensitive knowledge.
Regarding Ofrenda, the artist says: “I have been working on this project for a year, although the show itself came into existence once we entered the room, two months ago, and all the parts I have been working on came together. If I were to think of the show as an organ or a part of the body, it would be the hands, which represent all the hands that worked for this exhibition.”
Jimena Ferreiro, curator of the exhibition, says: “In these two months in which Celina Eceiza worked in the room full time, I dedicated myself to observe how she worked and how her whole body operated to decide with extreme precision every color, every shape, and the arrangement of all the elements that make up this immersive space”.
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Sala Celina Ezeiza (fotos Guido Limardo) Cortesía Moderno
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Sala Celina Ezeiza (fotos Guido Limardo) Cortesía Moderno
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Sala Celina Ezeiza (fotos Guido Limardo) Cortesía Moderno
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Sala Celina Ezeiza (fotos Guido Limardo) Cortesía Moderno
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Sala Celina Ezeiza (fotos Guido Limardo) Cortesía Moderno
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Sala Celina Ezeiza (fotos Guido Limardo) Cortesía Moderno
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Sala Celina Ezeiza (fotos Guido Limardo) Cortesía Moderno
Celina Eceiza (Tandil, 1988) has a degree in Visual Arts, graduated from the Universidad de las Artes (UNA). In 2016 she was selected as an agent at the Center for Artistic Research (CIA), and in 2024 she participated in the international residency Art Omi, in New York. Among other distinctions, in 2020 she received the first Banco Central Painting Award. Her work is part of the collection of the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires, among other important public and private collections.
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