Museo Moderno
Puca Paula Andrea
Photograph No. 4 of the Intrusive Thoughts series, 2021 Polyptych composed of 9 intervened photographs 15×15cm

Paula Puca was born in Salta Capital in 1978. She grew up among the mountains and air of northwest Argentina. She is a teacher at the secondary level of education. She completed her tertiary studies at the “Tomas Cabrera” Provincial School of Fine Arts, graduating as an Arts Professor in Visual Arts, in the province of Salta. She completed her bachelor’s degree at the National University of CUYO and is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Arts at the National University of Córdoba. Since 2017 she has participated in different group exhibitions as a visual artist, making public extensive and intimate research processes, which is incessant to the present. As part of this search for the development of her artistic practice, she takes various courses, workshops and clinics with artists and teachers from different origins and trajectories that nourish her artistic process. The recurring theme in Paula’s work is women. The concerns, stereotypes, thoughts and taboos that surround femininity. She addresses her experience and observations about the body and the idea of being a woman from different supports and materials; She began her search in figuration, with traditional techniques to later experiment with different performative actions, which she records photographically and currently she experiences her actions on textiles. Her works were selected in the Provincial Halls of the Salta Secretariat of Culture in the years 2020 and 2021. She thinks of her work as rebellious and pushy.