Her parents called her Yiyú, which is a word from Guaraní, and means ‘small water, big water’, and although they did not let them write her down with that name, they never stopped calling her that. Her last name, Finke, means, “bird that she sings.” Yiyú Finke is an artist with an extensive career, one of those trajectories of years of deep and at times silent work. Originally from Aristóbulo del Valle, Misiones, she decided to study a Bachelor’s Degree in Art at Unam, Oberà, and then a Master’s Degree in Granada, Spain.
From 2006 to 2012 she moved to Buenos Aires, and later she returned to Misiones where she chooses to stay until today.
She is extremely active, she does not hesitate to take classes with different artists such as: Luis Wells, Pablo Siquier, Mónica Girón, Sergio Bazán, and more. She created her own academy of contemporary art. And she not only studies and nourishes herself, but, generously, she has managed, since 1982, an innumerable number of projects that involve other artists. Her workshop has been a space for multiple cultural activities, and there are only sixteen steps that separate it from her Ant bar, where she prepares drinks and concoctions. An alchemist of colors and emotions, of sensations, of tastes, she explains to me that the origin of alcoholic drinks is the search for a cure for some illness or for the relief of pain in other cases. There is something of that in Yiyú, a healer, a teacher, a wise woman.