Ornella Pocetti
“My practice explores the sense of estrangement that emerges when different temporalities overlap within a single image. In these artworks, references to art history, mythology, and contemporary culture coexist, generating scenes that feel familiar yet slightly displaced. I am interested in that threshold where the recognizable becomes unsettling, where reality begins to darken and its more spectral dimensions start to surface. The images function as fragments of an incomplete narrative: bodies, landscapes, and symbols that emerge from a collective and unconscious memory. The artworks oscillate between the material and the spectral, between object and simulacrum. Within this fluctuation, a sensual and disturbing universe unfolds, where desire, violence, and mystery coexist in an unstable balance.”
Bio
Ornella Pocetti was born in Buenos Aires. She studied for a BA in Visual Arts at UNA (Universidad Nacional de las Artes) and further developed her practice through various workshops and programs. In 2015, she held her first solo exhibition, Defying Time. In 2019, she was awarded a scholarship to participate in the Artistas x Artistas program at Munar. In 2022, she took part in the Fountainhead Arts residency in Miami. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions at institutions including Museo MARCO La Boca, MACBA, MxM (Madrid), Usina del Arte, and Centro Cultural San Martín. In 2023, she held her first solo exhibition in Miami at Mindy Solomon Gallery. Her work has been selected for several prestigious competitions, including Salón Manuel Belgrano (2024), Salón Félix Amador (2018, 2019), Fondo Nacional de las Artes (2018), Premio Itaú (2019), Salón Nacional (2021), Concurso Nacional UADE (2020), Salón Nacional de Rosario Castagnino+Macro (2018), and the 10th National Painting Prize of the Central Bank (2017). In the latter four, she received mentions and awards.
She currently lives and works in Buenos Aires. She is part of the Viento Dorado artist collective, based in the La Boca neighborhood, where her studio is located.
