Guigui Kohon

Guigui Kohon was born in 1969 in the city of C. del Uruguay, Entre Ríos, Argentina.

She is an Architect from the University of Buenos Aires. Between 1996 and 2008 she lived in Barcelona, where she graduated in Arts and Crafts at Escola La Massana. She currently lives and works in Buenos Aires.

Associate Professor Cat. Kweitel-Kohon, Accessories Design, Clothing Design Career, University of Buenos Aires, UBA-FADU(2011-20).

She studies the Master's Degree in Communication and Cultural Creation at the W. Benjamin Foundation, UCAECE. She attended the Bazán Contemporary Art Workshop. She attended workshops with Barreda, Cazadores with Roux and Zanela, Seminars at the CIA and courses at the Di Tella University, among others.

She received the BCN “End of Degree” Fellowship. She did Residence "Off Massana" in Pueblo Español. She received the Lower Silesian Marshall Award and the Polish Assembly KGHM Metale; the 2nd Prize Petrobras Libre Bs.As Photo and Drawing Calendar S.C.A.

Her works were selected in the DCOOP Málaga (2020), Expoarte + 40 Museo Raggio (2019), Areatec, Félix de Amador and Vicentin Sta Fe (2018) Contests.

She has exhibited in Switzerland, Germany, Poland, Estonia, Spain, Portugal, the United States, Mexico, Uruguay, Chile and Argentina.

What has taken by the sandpaper (Traces - 10/2021)

The work arose intuitively from the proposal of Andrea Juan and Gabriel Penedo during 2021 with weekly meetings remotely that I shared with artists from various disciplines and countries.

During the process I tried to make changes in my doing. I used as a support the sheets of emery paper that were my new canvas, and I experimented with tools from my daily habitat such as the hot water bottle and kitchen cutlery that connected the two-dimensionality of painting with actions of my own body.

I arrived without proposing a different spatiality, beyond the plane to which I was accustomed. Actions such as painting both sides, cutting and rearranging leaves gave rise to a new reading generated by the book format. And when making the recording on video, the sound took precedence, the emery sheets hidden under the pigment printed a new figure giving a new meaning to the painting, almost taking it towards a more alive state, towards a new drift of this/these roadmap/s.

Acrylic, glitter and banana extract on sandpaper.