BRENDA SABBAGH

In my paintings I seek to capture the idea of the instantaneous and the invisible of everyday life. I feel like a pictorial photographer, I think of the works as frames of a cinematographic sequence. I am interested in painting the essence of the moment, what is not seen, capturing what is in people sitting, lying down, sleeping, thinking, sad, that intimacy is what attracts me, in each painting I try to immortalize the sensation that runs through the scene.

When I paint, the action of comes to me, immersing myself in water, in the wateriness of the painting itself. What separates the surface of the water and the surface of the air, when one is submerged, is a two-dimensional and abstract separation surface that cannot be seen but can be measured. This point of union between one surface and another is what I am interested in working on: between figuration and geometrization, between coherence and incoherence. I think of it as a healing act, both immersing yourself in the water and immersing yourself in the paint.

My work arises from the need to translate ideas about matter and anthropology into physical objects.
I reflect on human responses to the environment and interpersonal relationships in the timeline; an individual meditation from the ancestral focused on provoking a future collective reﬂexion.

Working with earth, stone and ceramics in the midst of the digital age alleviates the personal need for contact with the real and the material. The combination with contemporary elements and processes helps me to overcome the anachronism intended in my work. Subverting chronology and changing materials allows me to create an archaeology of the present and the future.

In my production I combine time, the individual and matter.

Born on October 4, 1993 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
She is a film director from the Universidad del Cine (FUC).
She is a visual artist trained in different painting workshops, including those of: Dolores Casares, Carolina Antoniadis, Elias Slonim and Ivana Roitberg. During the years 2020 and 2021 he carried out a clinic and work analysis with Tulio De Sagastizábal and since 2021 he has participated in the painting workshop of Sergio Bazán and Fernando O'connor. In 2021, he won a scholarship from the National Endowment for the Arts in the Individual Training category.

He is currently monitoring projects with Sofia Zuluaga and works clinic in Proyecto PAC at the Gachi Prieto gallery, in Buenos Aires. Participate in the residence "The abysmal instant" of MANTA. It is also part of the ´Cuatro x Cuatro´ clinic run by the artist Pablo Sinaí and the curator Federico de la Puente.

Partyparticipates in collective exhibitions nationally and internationally. In 2021 it is part ofSACH #5(Chacarita was enlarged) at Casa Chaca as a guest artist with Vicky Pujol Ferrari and Lole Asikian. In 2019 he lives in Israel where he participates in the collective exhibitionIndependent Pop Artcurated by Orly Dvir at Orly Dvir Gallery and at Dizengoff Center, Tel Aviv, Israel. In 2018, he exhibited together with Francesca Darget and Juana Rodríguez Simón in the exhibitionCourage and Dispossessioncurated by Pablo Frezza and Juana Biolcati at Casa Salvador, Buenos Aires, Argentina.