Chary Hilu Argentina

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Chary Hilú (Buenos Aires, Argentine, 1966). Visual artist and teacher of fine arts. She lives and works in Buenos Aires. She has his workshop in the Microcentro of Buenos Aires. She is Professor of Drawing and Sculpture at the National School of Fine Arts Prilidiano Pueyrredón (1989). She studied drawing and sculpture in the workshop of Juan Maffi (1985 to 1995).

My creative process is fueled by experimentation and the subsequent discovery of different materials, formats and supports. I work with found or recovered materials, which I resignify through my works. I explore unconventional formats and supports, such as musical instrument boxes, samples, branches, among others. My works present a great eclecticism that manifests itself in different visual languages: digital collages with intervened photographs, objects, drawings, sculptures, high reliefs, collages, which explore and alternate figuration and abstraction. I am sensitive to various issues that I see on the street or in the media: wars, people in street situations, the suffering of others. That is why the choice of materials, in relation to garbage (plastics and cardboard) that in various situations are resignified as elements of protection or sustenance against cold and desolation. I approach raw themes, which border on suffering, death, marginality, from a poetic perspective.