Mónica Giron (San Carlos de Bariloche, 1959). The experience of the enormous Patagonian horizon – whose human and geopolitical contexts are in accelerated transformation – constitute the foundations of Giron’s work. Through the presentation of the landscape and the world as a field of metaphors to ask unexpected questions of a sensitive, open, ethical and moral nature, Giron forms a body of works and actions that she displays in her exhibitions and seminars. She restlessly observes the landscape, architecture or art, attentive to the capacity that forms – and consequently humans – have to concentrate or lose information, energy, knowledge and power of expression. Her work frequently focuses on installations, objects and analysis of forms, drawings, watercolor paintings and site-specific projects. Mónica Giron spent her childhood and youth in Patagonia in the last century. This vital experience of the territory in transformation is fundamental in her development as an artist and it still resonates in her works. Her curiosity leads her to develop the capacity for wonder and keep alive the tension between knowledge and intuition, balancing the emotional world and delving into the personal spiritual world and learning with others. Giron’s work is a performance in continuous movement and endless evolution. She investigates and expands the possibilities of art education and works in that field from a horizontal, collaborative and relational point of view of art.

She has taught courses at various public institutions such as the National Academy of Bergen and Oslo in Norway. She has participated regularly since 2009 in the Artists Program of the Torcuato di Tella University, Buenos Aires. She has given seminars in Guayaquil, Ecuador; Porto Alegre, Brazil; Bariloche, Posadas, Resistencia, Río Gallegos, and Buenos Aires in Argentina. Among his latest individual exhibitions are Zonas Relejas (Barro, Buenos Aires, 2018), Exercises with the Earth Model (Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, 2015), Fronterizo and Trastación, (Galería Zabaleta Lab, Buenos Aires, 2013) and Neocriollo (Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, 2007). She lives and works in Buenos Aires.