Statement
Carola Desire is an artist born in Argentina, with Italian and Spanish roots who lives and works in England. Her work mainly comprises digital photography and also installation, performance, and moving images.
Her work explores feminine subjectivities, sexuality, and also their unexpected relationship with painting, landscape, and urban places— in an alchemy of tones, colors, contrast forms, and sensations.
Carola is inspired by paintings and sometimes sculptures of renowned artists that continue to impregnate her imagination and abstractly come up in her processes through marginal perceptions.
She studied photography at the Lino Ena Spilimbergo School of Applied Arts, at the University of Fine Arts in Cordoba, and at the La Metro Film School. Her formation began with theatre and dance and over the years she began to focus more on visual arts.
Carola Desire has been exhibited in Argentina, Germany, and the UK. Her last exhibition at the Emilio Caraffa Museum in Cordoba Argentina was selected by the federal program Art Boomerang under the direction of Daniel Fischer, a well-known Argentinian curator.
Carola has lived and worked in the UK since 2020, exhibiting in the Boomer Gallery in London and for the ING DISCERNING EYE award at the Mall Gallery in 2022 where she was selected by Karen Enters.
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Education
Higher Degree (MA level) Technician in photography /Higher School of Applied Arts, Lino Enea Spilimbergo, Córdoba Argentina
Higher Degree (BA level) in Audiovisual Communication/La Metro, School of Design and Audiovisual Communication, Córdoba Argentina
Extra academic studies
Photoshop and Lightroom editor / Pigmalión Fine art Print Fine art and photography courses / Córdoba Argentina 2015
Art Boomerang, Federal Artist Program / Córdoba Argentina 2016
Solo exhibitions
2016 A gogo dancer dada (Site specific relational performance) Programa Vortice , Emilio Caraffa Museum / Còrdoba Argentina curated by Daniel R Fischer and text by Patricia Bentancur
2015 Fotos de Fin de semana (Instalación Fotografica) Museo de la Mujer , MUMU, Córdoba Argentina curated by Sofia Koshiba.
2014 Okesa (video art and photography), Genaro Perez Museum / Córdoba Argentina curated by Humberto Sosa
2013 Vacuidad (photography), La Casona Municipal / Còrdoba Argentina curated by Humberto Sosa
Group Exhibitions
2022 ING DISCERNING EYE / Mall Gallery / London United Kingdom
2022 The new artist's Third Edition / Boomer Gallery / London United Kingdom
2021 10ª Fotosfera Edition art market /Nosotras mujeres fotógrafas / CCEC curated by Natalia de Mónaco / Córdoba Argentina
2019 Whit Tainted Pulpo dance collective ( video art ) Neukolln 48 Stunde Festival/ Prachtwerk / Berlin Germany
2019 Devenir continuo (photography), Fotogalería UNC / curated by Susana Perez Còrdoba Argentina
2019 Salvajes, New commissions, ACUD MACH NEU Berlin Germany Salvajes In the context of the 25th-anniversary celebration of the Berlin and Buenos Aires sisterhood we offer a space to Argentinian artists living in the German capital.
2018 La Piedad (photography), Museo la Cárcova / Buenos Aires Argentina / Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Salta. Argentina. 2018 / Museo Timoteo Navarro /Tucumán Argentina 2018 /Rectorado de la Universidad NAC de ARTE./ curated by Belkys Scolamiery and Hernan Ulm Buenos Aires. Argentina 2018
2018 Hábitat Humano (photography), Xochi, Latin American Women's Association /curated by Marcela Villanueva Berlin Germany
2016 Paisajes de proximidad (photo installation), Cabildo de córdoba Argentina, Jack Martinez Galery, Isidoro Gallery / curated by Kekena Corvalán Buenos Aires Argentina
2015 Las Piedras del Quilpo (Photography) The White Lodge Gallery, Córdoba Argentina
2015 Fotos de fin de semana 2 (photo installation), Mercado de arte Córdoba, El Gran Vidrio ART Gallery / curated by Catalina Urtubey Córdoba Argentina
2015 Condición Urbana, Okesa (video installation), 220 Cultura Contemporánea / Còrdoba Argentina curated by Manuel Pascual
2014 Asuntos Internos (photography), Gran Vidrio Art Gallery / curated by Carla Barbero Córdoba Argentina
2014 Más allá del horizonte., De cuerpos que desaparecieron (photography)Encuentros Abiertos del Festival de la Luz, , / curated by Susana Perez Córdoba Argentina
Commissions
2019 Salvajes, New commissions, ACUD MACH NEU Berlin Germany
Salvajes is a transdisciplinary exhibition that portrays "Wild culture" through works of art, live painting and music performances.
In the context of the 25th-anniversary celebration of the Berlin and Buenos Aires sisterhood, we offer a space to Argentinian artists living in the German capital.These artists develop their own routes of "new location awareness" prioritizing their production and self-legitimized environment, without hunting the creation of impact in a massive public. With their field experience as reference, the curator Mano Leyrado and the artist Aïda Gómez, artistic directors of the event, decide to call this global phenomenon "Wild culture".