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Garzón | Uruguay
Buenos Aires | Argentina

Directors | Ricardo Ocampo and Federico Curutchet

Walden Naturae, located in Pueblo Garzón, Uruguay, is an exhibition space surrounded by nature, promoting ecological and artistic initiatives connected to the environment. Part of the W group founded in Buenos Aires in 2016, it is a platform for critical reflection on artistic processes, cultural practices, and political-affective connections. In addition to exhibitions, W publishes artist books, essays, and the biannual publication Yulinda for critical discourse on contemporary art.

www.waldennaturae.com

ESTE ARTE 2025 | Gimena Macri

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BIO

Gimena Macri's (1986, Argentina) work stands out for its profound materiality and gestural quality, as well as its intimate and confessional nature, giving viewers the sensation of reading a private diary that does not belong to them, yet in which they can see themselves reflected.

By fusing the mental with the emotional, oil paint becomes the medium that allows her to move freely between urban landscapes, interiors, and texts. She relates objects to situations, achieving through her paintings an infinite range of textual possibilities for interpretation. The slowed-down time offered by the material enables her to gradually reconstruct and shape those sensations that emerge as an inevitable need to express figures and narratives in a confessional, autobiographical, and emotional story where the motifs expand.

Her work is art that requires no explanation; it stands on its own and connects with people through a visual narrative thread. Gimena selects elements of everyday life to construct her poetics and connect with what is most essential.

CURATORIAL

Remnants and portraits of those nights where, amidst mundane rituals and human exchanges, fantasy slips in, offering a new way of perceiving. Environments lose their lines and boundaries, everything floats. Those always humble and silent objects fill with power, start to speak, to desire.

Gimena Macri’s proposal seeks to create an immersive experience through painting, aiming to make the viewer an integral part of the pictorial process. By erasing the limits of the booth and saturating the floor and walls in a single color, the paintings and drawings seem to float in space, incorporating the visitor and making them part of the world art constructs. Provoking a state of reverie and estrangement—a prerequisite for any imagined reality—Macri’s proposal invites us to consider art's transformative power, its ability to craft narratives, and its irreverent and untimely capacity to disrupt the order of things.

What is art if not a construction of our imagination, capable of creating worlds as it leaves its mark?