Claudia Alarcón
Bio
(Santa Victoria Este, 1989).
Claudia is part of the Wichí community, where she lives with the forest, on the banks of the Pilcomayo River, in the northeast of the province of Salta, near Bolivia.
She received the support of the Citizen Culture Fund of the Province of Salta in 2020.
She participated in collective exhibitions at the Usina Cultural de Salta (2019); in IFA Berlin (2020); at the Terry National Museum in Tilcara (2021); at the Museum of Fine Arts in
Salta (2021), at the Migliorisi Foundation in Asunción (2021) within the third edition of
BIENALSUR and at the CABA Bicentennial House (2022).
She worked in collaboration with the German artist Olaf Holzapfel and the curator Andrei Fernández on the project "Los Colores del Monte" financed by the Goethe Institute, whose first exhibition was held at the Knust Kunz gallery in Munich.
One of her textile works is part of the José Luis Lorenzo collection, and works she made with the Thañí collective with the accompaniment of Guido Yannitto are part of the IFA Collection in Berlin.
Statement
Claudia Alarcón works with chaguar fiber, a typical vegetable fiber from the Chaco Salteño area. Her compositions, mostly abstract, propose a new approach to ancestral forms that her people have been repeating for a long time. In these new approaches, breaking them, rebuilding them, changing their scale and proposing new formal games, she inquires about myths and objects that make up her daily life the Wichí community.
