Lucila Sancineti, a visual artist trained at the University of Buenos Aires and a literature instructor, continuously explores ways of working with matter. Her interdisciplinary approach to sculpture and installation employs painting, textiles, ceramics, and biomaterials to extend our perceptions of ordinary encounters, objects, and experiences. Taken together, her body of work forms an archive of fragments that attempt to communicate the connections that bind one body to another, and to the larger world. Points of touch, of contact and influence, whether physical or implied, serve as keys to shaping a terrain of change and mutation, where literature operates as a matrix of thought to envision fantastical worlds and beings.
María Carolina Baulo: Your work focuses on the subject of bodies—not only the body as thing, but also as territory for exploring relationships of all kinds, a laboratory in which interaction creates new forms of corporeality. Could you explain this fundamental axis in your work?
Lucila Sancineti: I believe that everything a body touches becomes a body, with the capacity to affect and be affected. My work explores processes to engender a corporeality that tightens the boundary connecting us to each other. Thus, matter becomes a porous skin that invites touch and awaits inscription. . .
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