Born in Gainesville, Florida. She lives in Rosario, Argentina.
Nicole Mazza works with weaving, embroidery, sewing and hand-dying to create
figurative works. She uses religious references, stereotypes from soap operas and
pop culture as reflections of human conditioning, contrasting the delicacy
of embroidery related mostly to a feminine tradition with images
sexualized. Nicole is interested in the iconography of women seen through the lens
of the fantasies constructed in society. She, the woman constructed, deconstructed and
rebuilt, devoured and fragmented.
First generation Portuguese immigrant, Nicole learned from her grandmother
maternal traditions of weaving, sewing and embroidery. She sees sewing as an act
to repair something that has been broken. The figures are usually twisted: bodies in
positions of discomfort and impossibility. The limbs intertwine,
they envelop, reach and desire. They sometimes show acts of cannibalism,
illustrating the way society consumes women. Your current aesthetic stage
interweaves the delicate and grotesque, representing the breaks and fissures in the fabric
social.
She graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011 where she studied painting and arts.
textiles. In 2015 she founded She/Folk, a feminist art collective that focuses on
curatorial projects and publications, showcasing works by female or male artists
identified with her gender. After completing a residency at Fundación ACE
In Buenos Aires in 2014, Nicole moved to Argentina to focus on her art and the
tango.
She has shown her works in Buenos Aires, Rosario, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and
Gainesville. Her work has been reviewed by Vice Magazine and recognized by The New
York Times, The New Yorker (note on the “Brooklyn Beat Festival: Crossing Over”). She
highlights her individual exhibition “Blandir el quiebre”, curated by Tamara Alarcón
Castrillejo in CRUDO (May 2022) and the group exhibition “Glimpses – We are what
we see” curated by curators Auronda Scalera and Lidia Ravviso in London at the
Frieze framework (October 2022).
She currently lives and works in Rosario, Argentina.