Javier Soria Vazquez
Bio
He is an artist, writer, and curator born in Cafayate (Salta, Argentina). In 2024, he held two solo exhibitions: “The Unforeseen Act” at the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires, and “Something About the Night” at Biomba Gallery (Tucumán). In 2023, as part of his solo exhibition “Tacit Subject” at the Museum of Fine Arts of Salta, he participated (took part) with a polyphonic project at CIMAM (International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art). In 2021, he was a recipient of the UTDT Artist, Critics, and Curators Program grant and the Federal Laboratory (MuseosBA), and won the Grand Honor Prize at the Salta Visual Arts Salon.
Among his most notable distinctions are (the) Constelaciones, Red Quincho (2023), Exhibition Projects Prize from the Ente Cultural de Tucumán (2022, 2021, and 2020), Encouragement Prize Salón de Mayo (Santa Fe, 2018), Future Platform Program (2017), 2nd Prize at Itaú Cultural (2015), 2nd Prize at Itaú Cuento Digital (2014), 1st and 2nd Prize Salón de Artes Visuales de Salta (2014 and 2013), and 1st Prize Concurso Literario Ministerio de Cultura de Salta (2013).
Statement
Javier Soria Vazquez moves between disciplines, driven by the inherent concessions of art. Among his approaches, he uses photography to create temporary compositions: small movements that ultimately disassemble to form an impossible and illusory image.
In the series “Conjectures about an abyss”, he works with archives provided by an astronomical observatory, physically intervening in the images, wounding and eroding the medium with the intention of evoking an accessible and tangible abyss.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
