Belén Rodríguez
Bio
She studied Visual Arts at the Instituto Superior de Arte of the Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Paraguay, where she currently works as a Teaching Assistant; she also took classes at the Sculpture Ateliê of the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brazil. She is part of the Collective of Artists Taller de Moreno, and has participated in collective exhibitions in Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil and Cuba; in 2019 she won the 2nd Matisse Prize for Contemporary Art; with Taller de Moreno the Emergentes Prize also in 2019 - Visual Arts; in 2020 the 3rd Prize of the Concurso Nacional de Creación Artística por los 150 años de la Guerra Guasu - Premio Saturio Ríos a la creación de Artes Visuales; in 2021 the 1st Matisse Prize for Contemporary Art and the AICA Paraguay Prize 2021 as a member of the Colmar de Memoria el Olvido exhibition; in 2022 she was invited to the XIV Biennial of Havana, Cuba.
Statement
The research that I have been working on is oriented towards the production of bodies, imaginaries, even religious ones, and social systems; I work on the impacts of new technologies, not only on bodies but on social relations, interactions and exclusion - territory and margin, for which I find three lines through which my works mostly runs: the body and who inhabits it, the social processes and the uncertainty of the future, that's where I usually focus, and above all, on environmental issues. I consider important the process I follow to materialize my works, I always experiment with new mediums, but transparencies and projections are usually the most recurrent ones.
Additional information
Obra ganadora del 2° Premio Matisse 2019 y seleccionada para la XIV Bienal de la Habana, Cuba.
