Mónica Giron

Barro is pleased to present Elemental Vortex, an exhibition that immerses viewers in the very composition of nature through the unique perspective of Mónica Giron. In this exhibition, the intersections between natural elements and visual poetry are explored in a captivating dance of emotions and reflections.

Mónica Giron stands out in contemporary art by challenging creative boundaries, emerging as an influential force. Her approach leads her to the crossroads of nature, perception, and expression, a point at which art becomes a portal for understanding the fundamental connection between humanity and its environment.

Giron’s work employs natural elements as vehicles for exploration and expression, a choice that goes beyond the accidental. These materials transcend physical form to embrace transformation. Just like the lyrics of air and water, the selected elements convey a vitality that reaches the depths of subjectivity, challenging preconceived notions and inspiring a creative reinvention, akin to a child discovering the world.

Giron’s creations explore the duality and tension present in nature and human relationships. Her works capture the complexity of interactions and internal forces. The exhibition is a call to reflect on the interconnection between humanity and nature, reminding us that we are an integral part of this vast elemental vortex.

Elemental Vortex is not merely an exhibition but a journey to the very composition of existence. Mónica Giron’s work guides us in a poetic dance between the visible and the invisible, the tangible and the intangible. This display transcends the boundaries of art, awakening a profound connection between human beings and nature.

The experience of witnessing the stunning Patagonian horizon –whose human and geopolitical contexts are being rapidly transformed– is at the very heart of the work of Giron. Through her representation of the landscape and the world as a field of metaphors from which to pose unexpected questions of a sensitive, open, ethical and moral nature, Giron creates a body of work that unfolds in her exhibitions and seminars. She anxiously observes the landscape, architecture or art, attentive to the ability of forms –and consequently of humans– to concentrate or misuse information, energy, knowledge and the power of expression. Repeatedly her work is expressed in installations, objects and analyses of forms, drawings, paintings, watercolours and site-specific projects.

Mónica Giron spent her childhood and youth in last century’s Patagonia (Argentina). That vital experience of territory in constant transformation turned out to be essential in her development as an artist and still resonates in her works. Her curiosity takes her to develop her capability of amazement and to keep alive the tension between knowledge and intuition. She likes to think that it is possible to balance the emotional world and at the same time to go deep in the spiritual world and the learning of the other. Giron experiences art more as a performance in constant movement and as endless evolution than as a rational closed certification. Giron researches and broadens horizons in artistic education. She has been working in this field since 1988 form a horizontal, collaborative and relational point of view regarding contemporary art. She has dictated courses in different public institutions such as Begen’s and Oslo’s National Academy in Norway and takes part since 2009 of the Program for Artists of University Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires. Giron has given seminars in Guayaquil, Ecuador; Porto Alegre, Brasil; Bariloche, Posadas, Resistencia, Río Gallegos, y Buenos Aires in Argentina. Her most recent individual exhibitions are Ajuar para un Conquistador, Solo Show (Frieze New York, The Shed, 2023); Enlaces Querandí (Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, 2022); Zonas Reflejas (Barro, Buenos Aires, 2018); Ejercicios con el modelo terrestre (Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, 2015); Fronterizo y Traslación, (Galería Zabaleta Lab, Buenos Aires, 2013) y Neocriollo (Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, 2007).

She lives and works in Buenos Aires.