Hasta que me olvides (2021) Painting by Jazmin Giordano

Jazmín Giordano Buenos Aires 1984 

Painting passes through all my entire production from a conceptual and material liability that would not have been possible in times when painting was a hegemonic discourse (discourse of genre and disciplinary limits). My work is not limited to a particular plastic language, and I explore “conflicts" through the combination of media and elements that provoke strangeness. Provocation through kitsch is a tool I use, along with humor, to maximize themes and practices that are considered minor in “art history” In retrospect, my body of work is composed of a numerous sub grups where the interests seem to vary widely. However, I can divide them into two clearly identifiable moments. A first phase in which my production was strongly influenced by my work as a private teacher of decorative painting. There I wandered continuously for several years on gender issues related to the domestic sphere: Between 2007 and 2018, I taught painting to a group of retired women and housewives. In this group, it seemed to be an implicit law that all allowed creative freedom should be used for utilitarian purposes, for decorating the house. Learning to make this imposition a power was a common endeavour. 

Many of the techniques I learned to solve my students' aesthetic concerns, I later used in my own work. At the same time, the story of these women helped me align some thoughts around the stereotypical pop standardisation of the image and the symbolic space of certain techniques pejoratively referred to as minor art or “lady art”. This experience arose the question: From that way of doing considered minor,can we approach the analysis of contemporary, social and political problems or question the aspirational model of the middle classes? Since then, this question has accompanied me in all phases of my production, regardless of the current research. 

Around 2018, there was a significant shift in which it was clear that my research had expanded and diversified for two reasons: First, I felt that I had already exhausted the subject, and second, I considered it a political act not to limit myself speculatively to what is expected from an artist with a certain background. For this reasons, I felt the need to think about and communicate other urgent problems. The influence of the already mention life experience, however, ran through my entire production and led to a defined pictorial identity.

Today I find myself situated in the contradiction of the institutionalization of the “disruptive”. Thus, as a deliberate political act and perhaps against my own interests, I have returned to a mode of production that runs alongside the central themes and focuses on language, communication, the human psyche as opposed to metaphysics and magic.

• Nationality: ARGENTINA
• Date of birth : 1984
• Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
• Groups: Professional Artist Contemporary Argentinian Artists