Sabrina Passalia

I am argentine (porteña), living in the beautiful Madrid.

ARTIST STATMENT:

My work talks about small things, in big environments; explores the connection between feeling and daily objects. Its aroma is familiar, of toast in the morning or flan in the oven; with a slight feeling that everything can fail, that everything is supported by a coordinated balance and connected by too many variants.
My starting points are my home, the everyday, what hugs, what snuggle, what suffocates, what overflows, what in another context would be scary.
The stories in my paintings, the characters inside them, are stories of family, relationships, love, projects that fail, decisions poorly made and small adventures. I investigate what it is to be an artist, a mother, a daughter, a woman in an environment that is always conflictive.

At the age of 17 I applied and started my studies at the Buenos Aires´s National School of Fine Arts Prilidiano Pueyrredón, where I developed my studies over five years. Also studied theory at Buenos Aires University for four years. 
I worked my tecniques and concepts by the hand of several argentinian artists like Sergio Bazan, Tulio de Sagastizabal, Leila Tschopp and Verónica Gomez.
My works have been shown in Argentina and Spain since 2007, and some of my paintings are parts of private collections in Argnetina, Spain, Greece and France.

STUDIES
2016 - 2018 Work analysis workshop by Leila Tschopp
2013 - 2014 Tulio de Sagastizabal work clinic - 2013 / 2014
2005 - 2008 Sergio Bazan's painting workshop
2000 - 2004 University of Buenos Aires
1997 - 2001 National School of Fine Arts of Bs. As. Prilidiano Pueyrredon (University Institute)


SOLO SHOWS
2018 - Urban Museum, Exhibition hall: Tornu Hospital of Buenos Aires. (Buenos Aires, Argentine)
2015 - Emerging Artists at the Cinematographic Research Center. "Fantasy. Reality. Intuition." (Buenos Aires, Argentine)
2013 - Carlos Thays Botanical Garden of Buenos Aires. "A flash that illuminates a scene." (Buenos Aires, Argentine)
2010 - La Casona de los Olivera, “N...

2021 - Piedralaves City Hall, I Alberto Greco (Ávila, Spain)
2021 - Espacio Complices, Remain I (Madrid, Spain)
2019 - Art Meeting Point, at Hydros Hotel (Málaga, Spain)
2018 "How to build a fence" Pasaje 17 Buenos Aires
2018 "Mountain instalation"
2017 "Rehearsal room" Esteban Lisa Foundation Buenos Aires
2015 "Reality. Fantasy. Intuition" at the Film Research Center (Centro de investigación Cinematográfica). Buenos Aires
2013 “Retratos de ciudad y naturaleza” project, declare of cultural public interest by the C.A.B.A. (Buenos Aires City Government) and approved for the Ley de Mecenazgo.
2013 Buenos Aires Botanical Garden Carlos Thays. Individual. “Un destello que ilumina una escena.”
2013 Project preselection "Equipaje de mano" project by Galería Temporal (Chile) and Central de Proyectos (BA)
2011 Grow. BA. Group Exhibition
2010 Casona de los Olivera. BA. “Naturaleza. Sade y su espíritu”
2010 Casa Brandon. BA. “Veranito en casa”
2009 Centro Cultural Facultad de Agronomía. BA. ”Naturaleza. Flores. Reglas.”
2009 Casa Brandon. BA. ”Naturaleza. Flores. Reglas.”
2007 CC. Borges. BA. “Pinturas levitando”