claudia pucheta
Bio
(1970) Lives and works in Catamarca. From childhood, she attended various painting workshops, and
simultaneously trained as a dressmaker alongside her mother, with whom she later worked in garment making. Over time, she combined this craft with artistic production, making it an integral part of her life and work. She received her academic training at the National University of Córdoba (UNC). Her artistic process encompasses diverse formats and genres, including: textiles, painting, video art, performance, installations, objects, clothing and art, photography, urban interventions, costume design, and design. Since the 1990s, she has participated in various group and solo exhibitions, as well as several National Salons. Some of her most important exhibitions include: “Tiempo Dedicado” (Dedicated Time), “Así No Se Escribe” (This Isn't How You Write), “Rojo y Verde para Laura” (Red and Green for Laura), “Paisaje a toda Máquina” (Landscape at Full Speed) for Laboriosísima, and “Jardines Interiores” (Interior Gardens) for Tiempo de Poda (Time of Pruning). In 2024, she won First Prize at the 1st Provincial Salon of Visual Arts, Bicentennial of the Autonomy of Catamarca (1821-2021), and FIRST PRIZE at the Regional Salon of Visual Arts of Northwest Argentina (NOA) - La Rioja - Argentina. Since 2002, she has lived and worked in the rural town of San Pablo, Capayán - Catamarca.
Statement
The everyday is manual, tangible, caressable; it is Love mysteriously imprinted on our hands. In the essence of our work is imprinted that mystery that distinguishes us from one another.
Time, which returns circular and longed for, strains linear time. There are new beginnings, endless, loving gestations.
In the immense understanding of life, everything starts anew. In each trace, each stitch, time returns.
The work stems from an intense circumstance, but resolves in the "Time Dedicated" that which returns, that simplicity recognized as beauty, the materiality of life imbued with longing. Of hands that make, that gestate, that create.
The manner, the detail, the dream dreamed when we dedicate our time.
And life keeps passing... and sometimes it finds us, and other times it reminds us.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
