BARRO / Seeber at Art Basel Miami Beach

Alejandra Seeber (Buenos Aires, 1969), has been described as having a dialogic approach to painting, where intentionality and random procedures, failings and acceptance operate together without hierarchy. Seeber conceptualizes painting, not from historical references or social conventions but from a visual culture crossed by alternative rock, theatrical stage designs, musical shows, the city’s underground, the digital softwares that started being used in graphic design and the technological novelty in publicity characteristic of the end of the last century. Laying her eyes in domestic interiors, architecture and decorations, Seeber finds an image of the world that she rapidly blows up in stains and squirts that scatter through the canvas making it impossible to see the difference between in and out, between figures and abstraction. In this battle for domesticating symbols and updating meaning, Seeber ends up adding new forms and contexts to images resulting in multiple-layered works that invite us to renegotiate the boundaries between totality and fragment. Some of her most recent projects are A oJO (Barro, Buenos Aires, 2020), Fuera de serie (Curator: Francisco Lemus. Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, 2020), Getaways (Hausler Contemporary, Lustenau, 2018); Autoamerican (Barro, Buenos Aires, 2015); Cuadro por cuadro (Miau Miau, Buenos Aires, 2014); Yes-yes (Hausler Contemporary, Munich, 2011) Tutti Frutti (Hausler Contemporary, Zurich, 2011), Dialogville (Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, 2010), Pinturalia (Galería Fernando Pradilla, Madrid, Spain, 2008); The pregnant painter (Virgil de Voldere Gallery, New York, 2007), Duos (Sperone Westwater, New York, 2003). She lives and works in New York.