Yuyo Gardiol
Bio
Yuyo Gardiol (San Carlos Centro, Santa Fe, Argentina, 1980) is an artist, curator, and independent cultural manager. She holds a degree in Fine Arts from the Faculty of Humanities and Arts at the National University of Rosario (U.N.R.). Her work has received numerous awards, including: In Situ Award (Baphoto 2023); National Fund for the Arts Award at the LXIX National Salon (Rosario 2015); and the 12SAR16 Award (12th Art Week Rosario 2016) for the project “Reverdecer.”
She has participated in residencies in Madrid (Spain), San Martín de los Andes (Argentina), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), and Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil). Her works have been exhibited in Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Mexico, the United States, Spain, and Portugal.
Her notable solo exhibitions include: "Pueblo Fantasma", CRUDO (Rosario, Argentina, 2024); "En la oscuridad absoluta hasta una montaña es invisible", Museo Juan B. Castagnino (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2023); "Observar lo invisible", La Lavandería (Madrid, Spain, 2018); "Un secreto olvidado", CRUDO (Rosario, Argentina, 2018); "Autorretrato"; "Lo que quedó de nuestro amor", National Salon of Rosario 2015, Museo Juan B. Castagnino (Rosario, Argentina, 2015); "Del vacío un bosque", MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art (Rosario, Argentina, 2015). In 2024, she participated in "¿Cuánto pesa el amor?" curated by Daniel Fischer at the Recoleta Cultural Center.
Statement
My work is shaped by the idea of how humanity inhabits the world and its relationship with nature. I am interested in creating immersive, dreamlike atmospheres. The tone of my works is often melancholic and reflective.
Observing nature, its movements, admiring its patience, calmness, fury, and wisdom is a habit I inherited from my grandparents. It is inevitable for me to reflect on human behavior, which is increasingly fast-paced and functional to a system that generates overproduction without knowing why, without explanation or awareness of the damage we are causing to the world as humanity.
I experience artistic practice as a vital necessity. It is the way I can condense many emotions and sensations.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
