CAROLINA GUTIERREZ
Bio
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1960.Where she lives and works.
She uses digital and analogic black and white photography, which develops and copy herself.
She works with photo gravure Intaglio type, using a non toxic technique, taking care of the environment.
Since 2013 she works with experimental and alternative photographic processes, Cyanotype and Van Dyke.
She studied in Copello- Miguens school, and continued her formation with seminars, workshops and courses.
Afterwards, she attended creativity workshops with Julie Weisz, Carlos Mei, Diego Ortiz Mugica, Julieta Escardó y Raquel Bigio. From 2012 to 2016 she attended photoengraving workshop with Lucrecia Urbano. In 2017 she participated in Vivian Galbán´s Work Clinic and in Ana Sánchez Zinny´s Contemporary Photography workshop, continuing with the last until nowadays.
Her work has been the subject of solo and group exhibitions in different places, museums, art galleries, art fair exhibitions, in her own country and abroad.
Some of them are: First Bienal “El Gran Sur” in Montevideo, Uruguay 2012
She was selected to participate in “El Festival de la Luz”, Buenos Aires, 2018
She participated in the International Conference “IMPACT10” in Santander, Spain, 2018
Showed her photo gravure work in Barcelona, Spain, 2019
She was selected to show her work in the international photo festival “FOCUS IN THE STORY”, Washington DC, USA 2022
Since 2005 she works with Laura Cardoner and Gabriela Fernández Madero in grupal projects, founding “ATRIA”.
Statement
MEMORY AND ARCHIVE
Our goal is the search for a visual journey in which narratives involving an encounter with intimate and unique spaces are created.
Our latest project is an investigation into the archive, the family album and memory.
Every act of memory is a reinvention. It is hard to recall memories as something tangible; oblivion and blurred details are unavoidable.
The power of the image is to understand that it not only unites, but also creates, transforms and recreates our memory, making the invisible visible and evoking memories while fictionalizing the past.
We try to address the issue of memory and oblivion and this allows us to reflect on family, relationships, home and women's roles.
We start out with photography to then delve into other disciplines such as engraving, collage, alternative techniques and ceramics, resulting in a variety of artwork displayed in different media.