Magdalena Jitrik was born in 1963 in Buenos Aires, the city where she lives and works. Between 1974 and 1987, due to the difficult political situation that her country was going through, she moved to Mexico, where she trained at the National School of Plastic Arts. In her pictorial work, presented in a key of geometric abstraction, she unites or links the tradition of Malevich and Kandinsky with that of the indigenous American cultures and peoples. According to the artist herself, geometry is the universal vehicle that allows her to bring together these supposedly distant traditions. Jitrik often incorporates messages from the modern revolutionary tradition that refer to historical events.