Dalila Puzzovio
Bio
Dalila Puzzovio (Buenos Aires, 1942) is a visual artist and designer, a central figure in Argentine pop and the avant-garde of the 1960s. Associated with the Di Tella Institute, she developed a body of work that crosses art, fashion, design, and mass culture. She received the Di Tella National Prize for Autorretrato (1966) and was awarded in the 1967 international competition for Dalila doble plataforma, a work that brought her artistic explorations into the commercial circuit.
Together with Charlie Squirru and Edgardo Giménez, she created the celebrated urban billboard ¿Por qué son tan geniales? (1965). Her career includes costume design for film and theater, interventions in public space, and architectural projects. With more than six decades of production, she explores the body, identity, and the expressive possibilities of clothing. The Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires brought together her career in the retrospective Dalila Puzzovio: Autorretrato.
Statement
Puzzovio’s practice crosses art, design, fashion, and mass visual culture. In the altered photographs, the image becomes a space for experimentation where I explore the relationships between the body, appearance, and the construction of identity. The intervention transforms the photographic record and opens up new possibilities for interpretation. Drawing on the language of pop, I incorporate references to consumption and everyday life to question the boundaries between artwork and object, between artistic creation and design. I am interested in working at these intersections, where an image can acquire other meanings and propose new ways of looking at ourselves.
