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Performance Cycle: Abierto Infinito. Lo que el cuerpo recuerda

Rocío Valdivieso

Performance: DARKENING A SHEET OF PAPER

Thursday, March 5 – 7:00 PM

Darkening a Sheet of Paper is part of a series of actions in which meaning is constructed through repetition, the act of memorization, and a certain degree of improvisation. In this way, a non-linear reading takes shape, beginning from a written text and transforming as it is spoken aloud, shifting its form and meaning in the very act of utterance.

The texts originate from a research process centered on materiality, space, and the relationships between body and matter, as well as writing, the sculptural, and the exploration of voice and orality. The material used to construct the piece consists of a collection of purchase receipts accumulated over time. The text printed on them and the action of bringing them close to a heat source—triggering the reaction of thermal paper—generate meanings linked to ideas of consumption, record-keeping, and wear.

About Rocío Valdivieso

Rocío Valdivieso (Tucumán, Argentina, 1994) is an artist, researcher, and cultural manager. She is currently a PhD candidate in Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid. She holds an MA in Research in Artistic Practices from the University of Castilla–La Mancha (UCLM) and a BA in Visual Arts from the National University of Tucumán. She was a Fundación Carolina fellow in 2022/23. She currently coordinates Errática. Laboratory of Processes and Critique, together with Romina Casile, in Madrid.

She took part in the PEEPA 2023 Program at the Centro de Residencias Artísticas, Matadero Madrid, under the mentorship of Dora García, Cabello/Carceller, and Isabel Marcos. She completed the 2021/22 Artists Program at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires. In 2020, she participated in the Intensive Curatorial Program of Proyecto PAC, Buenos Aires. She received the Visual Arts Promotion Award at the 4th Visual Arts Week of the Ente Cultural de Tucumán. She was awarded an AUGM scholarship to undertake an exchange residency at UNESP, São Paulo, Brazil. She also participated in the International Residency Program La Ira de Dios and in the Acéfala Galería Residency for Argentine artists.

She has held the solo exhibitions The Order of Virtues (2022), Painting Prayer (2021), and Theory of the Involuntary (2019) in Tucumán, Argentina, and has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including Latent Aura at Espacio Amazonas; the PEEPA Program Closing Event at Matadero, Madrid; and Ceding a Trace in Cuenca.

She has taken part in various educational programs since 2013 and frequently writes texts accompanying art exhibitions. She was a founding member and secretary of the board of the Association of Visual Arts Workers of Tucumán (TAViT).