Carrie Bencardino
1993, Buenos Aires
Through my practice, I investigate the visual discourses present in the different scenes that I have frequented from an early age, from queer party circles to the metal underground of Buenos Aires. Characters with body modifications, nightclubs, junk images from the Internet, bands’ iconography are some of the frequent elements in my work, through which I construct my own story of those who inhabit these spaces, their phenomena and their contradictions. The autobiographical is presented as a possible exponent of situations that, isolated from the context that justifies their existence, invite us to think of agitation as a way of inhabiting the contemporary world. Expanding the limits of my practice, involving other people, recreating agitation instances, and that representation becomes a presented action are some of my main interests when working. I isolate code-laden actions from their usual context and try to condense a given gesture. It challenges me to analyse what happens to these gestures when they are taken out of their usual environment, and what transformations they produce in their surroundings when this happens.
BIO / CV ↯
Carrie Bencardino (Buenos Aires, 1993) is a graduate in Fine Arts from the Universidad Nacional de las Artes. They attended the Artist Program at Torcuato Di Tella University (2019) and the Artist Program at El Mirador Foundation (2020), among other educational spaces such as workshops led by Flavia Da Rin, Manuel Ameztoy or ABELE (Javier Villa y Carla Barbero).
Stand out among their solo exhibitions are “Un rayo de sol mi peor enemigo” (2023) at Now Gallery, Lima, and “Nunca voy a olvidar lo mal que la pasé” (2020) at PIEDRAS. Additionally, Bencardino has participated in group exhibitions and performances at various venues, including the Centro Cultural Kirchner, La Casa del Bicentenario, Centro Cultural Recoleta, and art fairs such as arteBA, Expo Chicago and NADA Miami. Bencardino has received awards, including a special mention at the National Salon of Visual Arts (2023) and at the Fundación Klemm Prize (2022) and the Regional Prize of the Visual Arts Contest of the Fondo Nacional de las Artes (2022).
In 2023, they received the Oxenford Collection Travel Scholarship for a residency at Las Cicadas (Ibiza, Spain), and in 2024 the HITO Grant, a program of scholarships and workshops for artists.
