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This project consists of researching part of Alberto Heredia’s legacy, his drawings and collages, as well as his collection of objects. Generally, I feel drawn to collections of everyday items, where a variety of pieces from different origins coexist, whether they are of value or not.
For several years, my artistic practice has been based on drawing. Using this technique, I develop large series in which I portray everyday objects, tools, consumer products, which, when interwoven, become pieces of a large jigsaw puzzle.
Following this line of work, I want to make a series of drawings based on a research work on the Heredia fund. My interest in exploring these pieces is also driven by the desire to work with a previously established collection and to investigate how, through drawing, I can bring this legacy into dialogue with my own way of approaching and coming close to the everyday objects that surround us.
Mimi Laquidara was born in Concordia, Entre Ríos Province, in 1989.
She holds a degree in Fine Arts from the Universidad Nacional de Rosario. She continued her training at the Programa para Artistas, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Buenos Aires, 2012), the Escuela FLORA (Bogotá, 2017) and the SOMA Educational Programme (Mexico City, 2017-2019). She has participated in multiple residencies: Casa Wabi + Fundación Ama Amoedo (Mexico, 2023), La Térmica + Bienalsur (Málaga, 2023), Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Nebraska, 2021), Ox-Box (Michigan, 2022) and Curadora (Rincón, 2016).
She has been awarded production and research grants from the Fondo Nacional de las Artes (2017, 2019, 2022), Oxenford Collection (2020) and Becar Cultura (2017). She has had numerous solo exhibitions, including Agrupaciones [Groups] (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Rosario, 2023) and Correr para atrás [Running Backwards] (Fundación Osde, Rosario, 2017), and has produced murals and sculptures in public and private spaces in the cities of Rosario, Buenos Aires, Bogotá and Mexico City.
Her works have participated in the group exhibitions Del cielo a casa. Conexiones e intermitencias en la cultura material argentina [From Heaven to Home. Connections and Intermittences in Argentinian Material Culture] (Malba, Buenos Aires, 2023), Ciudades: sueño y distopía [Cities: Dream and Dystopia] (Centro Cultural Kirchner, Buenos Aires, 2022), Figuritas. Apariciones futboleras en el arte argentino [Stickers. The Presence of Football in Argentinian Art] (Casa Nacional del Bicentenario, Buenos Aires, 2022), Un círculo que se abre. Arte contemporáneo en Rosario [A Circle That Opens. Contemporary Art in Rosario] (Centro Cultural Parque de España, Rosario, 2022), Pensar en un hecho revolucionario [Thinking About a Revolutionary Event] (Museo Castagnino, Rosario, 2021) and El procedimiento silencio [The Silence Procedure] (Fundación Osde, Rosario, 2016), among others.
He won the First Acquisition Prize at the Salón Litoral, Museo Municipal de Artes Visuales ‘Sor Josefa Díaz y Clucellas’ (2022) and the Premio Estímulo at the Salón del Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes ‘Rosa Galisteo de Rodríguez’ (2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020), as well as at the Salón Nacional de Rosario (2014, 2017). Her work was also selected to participate in the 2023 edition of the Braque Prize (Untref, Buenos Aires) and the 8M Prize (Centro Cultural Kirchner, Buenos Aires).
She lives and works in Rosario, Santa Fe Province.