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Carla Vázquez

I work across visual art, writing, and performance. I build projects between studio practice and collective contexts, with a focus on process, transmission, and transformation.
Carla Vázquez

Short bio

I am Carla, a visual artist, writer, and actress born in La Rioja, Argentina. Beyond my own work, I accompany creative processes through sensitivity, deep listening, and the movement that art proposes. I work as a visual arts and writing workshop facilitator, and I have also worked in vulnerable contexts such as children’s homes, shelters, neuropsychiatric institutions, prisons, and informal settlements, where art becomes both trench and tool. I have published texts, illustrated fanzines, participated in collective and solo exhibitions, and received awards in writing, visual arts, and acting.

Artistic focus

My artistic practice migrates according to need or to the question that corners me. I am interested in how art moves and unsettles; how a process can open a new territory. I believe in mutation, in choosing fear and discomfort as places of passage. I do not come to stay still. It is urgent to create, to move, to insist.

What shadow insists on returning? What image did my body keep before my mind? What lost gesture wants to be found?

Which of my wounds is still looking for a game to soothe it? What word invented by my childhood still helps me look at the world?

What whisper was trapped between the edges of this photo? What offering does the forgotten bring? What fear still hides beneath my pillow? What form does tenderness take when everything seems broken?

Background

  • Based in Paris (WHV). Born in La Rioja, Argentina.
  • Visual Arts teaching degree; Social Work degree.
  • Facilitated art & writing workshops (children, adolescents, adults), including vulnerable contexts.
  • Stage experience (theatre tours) and screen work (film / series).
  • Ongoing independent practice: studio work, writing, mentoring.

Distinctions

  • “La Otra Mitad”, First Prize — Concurso de Microrrelatos por los DDHH (2022)
  • “Trabajo Sucio”, winner — Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional (2023)
  • Play “Cruci(ficción)”, First Place — Festival Provincial de Teatro (2022)
  • Mention for Best Acting — Festival Nacional del Teatro (2023)
  • Selected works — Salón Regional del NOA (2018, 2023, 2024, 2025)

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