María Paz Secundini
Bio
Paz Secundini holds a degree in Fine Arts (UNR) and specialised in Irish Studies (USAL). Her work has been selected for the 60th Provincial Salon of Entre Ríos and the 5th OSDE Foundation Award (2023). She participated in Otra Feria, in the episode "Young American Artists" (2020), and ArteCo (2021/2022), where she took part in the panel discussion "Artwork and Craftsmanship: Tradition and Contemporaneity." She has attended the residencies Campamento Cerámico (2019), SirveVerse (2022), Mudar (2022), and Río (2024, Regional Artist Scholarship). She leads the project "Revealing with Plants" (funded in 2022 by the Santa Fe Province Promotion Plan and the FNA), teaches ceramics at her studio, and is an assistant lecturer for the Painting III course (FHyA-UNR).
Statement
I work with organic elements and I am deeply connected to winter. In my works, the materials that shape them are also snow, rocky mountains, forests, and waterfalls; these are the things I seek to capture. In these sparsely inhabited places, as in myself, nature prevails.
By choosing living materials and their processes, I question current consumption practices. In doing so, I create works that are part of a natural cycle, much like our own, which aim to make us reflect on environmental issues and how we relate to other species.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
