Silvina Batista

Artist Statement

Silvina Batista (Argentina, 1973) is a contemporary photographer whose work explores identity, emotional states, and symbolic landscapes through staged photography and poetic self-portraiture.

Working from a conceptual approach, she uses the body as a narrative element, creating images that move between presence and absence, intimacy and distance. Her photographs evoke quiet, suspended atmospheres, where light, gesture, and space carry emotional and symbolic meaning.

Batista’s work has been exhibited in Argentina and internationally. Her photobook Self-Portraits (2020) is part of the permanent collection of the Centre Céramique Library in Maastricht, the Netherlands. Her practice has been supported by recommendations from Argentine artists and institutions, as well as from an international gallery platform.

She currently lives and works in Argentina.

Education

Industrial Engineering, Buenos Aires (1996–2000)

Basic Analog Photography Courses, Foto Club Argentino, Buenos Aires (2008)

Vision and Composition Workshop, University of Buenos Aires (2009)

Zone System Workshop, Buenos Aires (2009)

Pinhole Photography Workshop, Buenos Aires (2010)

Photography Studies, Academy of photographic art Hasselt, Belgium (2011–2013)

Advanced Photography Training (2019)

Antique Photographic Processes: Van Dyke, Cyanotype, etc., Buenos Aires (2020)

Ongoing Photography Studies, Alberto Natan Studio (2020–present)

Cinema Studies, Artistic Training Center, Municipality of Pilar, Buenos Aires (current)

Selected Exhibitions

“Malena” — Tigre Art Museum, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2021 (solo exhibition)
“Self-Portraits” — Centro Cultural Ernesto Sabato, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2021 (solo exhibition)
“Self-Portraits” — Ushuaia Museum of Art and Maritime Prison, Ushuaia, Argentina, 2021 (solo
exhibition)
“Fair BADA” — La Rural, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2019 (solo exhibition)
“50 Years of the Academy” — Academy of Photographic Art, Hasselt, Belgium, 2022
National Salon of Azul — Azul, Argentina, 2022
“Night of the Museums” — Ernesto Sabato House Museum, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2023
Fair “Contacto Fotofest” — Mar del Plata, Argentina, 2023
Independent Art Festival — Rancho Rojo Cultural Space, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2025
114th Anniversary of Ernesto Sabato — Centro Cultural Ernesto Sabato, Buenos Aires, Argentina,
2025
Sea Rock - Cultural Center Ernesto Sábato - 2025
Sea Rock II - French Alliance, Buenos Aires- 2026