Clara Cisterna - Argentina
Clara Cisterna
Designer biography:
I am an artist and geologist based in Tucumán, the north of Argentina. My practice as a geologist led me to explore different landscapes, mainly the andean Puna. These experiences, seeing how life interacts with the environment, both entangled, inspires the shapes I create. The Puna’s dessert linked to my personal questions about living and aging, about Earth's natural geological processes, are the core of my work. I tend to express the tensions among geological and biological time, parallel processes in which different ways of living unfold. I build pieces with materials where textures and transparencies evoke the ephemeral process of living, the gap between beings' time and Earths’ time.
Collection concept: Leaving the skin behind - Shedding
Questions about change, how much is preserved within it and how much mutates, are raised. The possible interactions of distant, yet contemporaneous existences, reveals the trait of temporality and a continuous need to escape from a limiting constitution to generate another, which will also be temporary. This shedding or leaving one’s skin behind, literally described in the case of reptiles, leads us to reflect on what survives and what sheds in the course of time. The construction of parallels based on distant existences are proposed, revealing interrelations, containing in the changed skin of a Yarará the pace of the passing time for all the livings.
