Trinidad Metz Brea
Bio
TRINIDAD METZ BREA has a degree in Visual Arts from the Universidad Nacional de Arte and entered the UTDT 2024 Artists Program. In 2023 she was selected for the OSDE Argentine Visual Arts Award and had her third solo exhibition Ferales, curated by Sofía Dourron at Aura fabrica. In 2022 she received the first prize at the Salón del Litoral de Santa Fe and was selected for the Klemm Foundation and ITAU Foundation awards. Also, in 2021 she was selected in the Klemm Foundation Award, in the Biennial of Young Art and received the ARTEBA Work Award.
Statement
Her practice focuses on sculpture, incorporating 3D processes, painting, drawing and other media. In her work she creates ecological worlds and climatic fictions that are at once strange and familiar, generating new myths and fantastical chronicles that emerge when non-human entities become entangled with human infrastructure projects, and explores the material and conceptual relationships between artistic traditions and new technologies. At the same time it interweaves diverse influences: mythologies and art history merge with gaming narratives, cyberpunk and dystopia, biological studies, bestiary and Latin folk tales, emerging from the potential of what subsists/resists. From these material encounters emerge new bodies and a poetics of transition that explores what it means to be human or more than human in the Anthropocene, in a context of climatic, ecological and political challenges, giving way to tentacular subjectivities and porous becomings.