(Villa Mercedes, San Luis, 1963) Maria Causa works from the principle of the assemblage and the collage, in groups of series moved by the poetic and visual exploration of some element of the daily world. She has experienced, for example, with wood, ironing boards, pans and buttons, among others, either in abstract forms such as totems or spheres, or in figurative and more narrative ones. In her most recent series of sculptures called “petrifications” she investigates sand, which covers the assembly of parts that is shaping the form. Maria thinks them as fossilized objectualities, a kind of stone sculpture, contemplating sand as a particle of time that expresses the pulverization of matter. Graduated in 1986 from the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes Prilidiano Pueyrredon, in 1987, she integrated the art group named “Grupo de la X” experiencing the learning from collective work. She travelled to Mexico to study pre-hispanic sculptures and lived there for one year, participating actively in solo and collective exhibitions during the next decade. In 1989, back in Buenos Aires, she presented her first solo show in this city at Van Riel gallery. Since then, she has participated in more than 70 exhibitions, including international biennials and art fairs. She currently lives and works in Buenos Aires.