Silvina Sícoli
Bio
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1967.
Graduated from Fashion and Textile Design at Universidad de Buenos Aires, where she worked as a teacher of Design and Expressive Media. She is a Masters degree in painting at the The University of Iowa, IA, USA, where she worked as an assistant professor in painting and drawing. She got the Len Everett scholarship at the University.
She is also a Masters of Art at the University of HBK Braunschweig, Germany, with Walter Dahn,
participating in exhibitions in Cologne and Braunschweig.
In Buenos Aires, Silvina was an artist of Galeria Belleza y Felicidad where she also curated shows together with Fernanda Laguna.
She had individual and group shows in Germany ( Braunschweig / Köln) with the curatorship of Walter Dahn, in the United States (The University of Iowa) with curatorship of Joseph Patrick and in Buenos Aires curated by Fernanda Laguna, Cecilia Pavón, and Guadalupe Creche.
She runs Selvanegra with her sister, a project framed by the groundbreaking feminist demonstrations and activism that took place at the Argentine National Congress.
Statement
If my body was a territory, would I be the ruler? How can I acknowledge the body’s boundaries? If I draw a map of the body, would I follow its biological structure or could I also map emotions, memories and psyche?
At what point do bodies have a gender? When do they stop having it? What does it mean to have a gender?
I often ask myself these questions while I am working. They provide me a fertile ground to transform my art making into an esthetical-political action that hovers in the realm of imagination.
