FLORENCIA RODRIGUEZ GILES

Florencia Rodriguez Giles is an Argentine artist whose work in performance and drawing employs dreams and illusions to explore the relation between contemporary art practices and therapeutic procedures. In her performances, Rodriguez Giles embodies a place existing between the conscious and unconscious, where the body and psyche become completely plastic. Her works and projects, which people attend as direct participants or spectators, recurrently propose dream worlds, new communities of coexistence, and alternative bonding modalities that re-sensitize our experience as subjects. The experiences take place both in spaces dedicated to art and in other unconventional ones, thus including social groups far from the contemporary art circuit.

ABOUT THE WORK:

Rodriguez Giles’ surrealist charcoal drawings render half-human and half-monster figures in astonishing detail—claws cut the surface of skin, serpent-like tongues curl, eyeballs pop and teeth gnash at flesh. These surreal and hybrid plant, human, and animal figures border on the alien and the mythical. By close cropping these carnal scenes, the artist provides high detail with intentional lack of context around the image. The result is an erotic and tense creation of futuristic folklore and magical states.