In the Studio: Anabella Papa

Anabella Papa in conversation with Aimé Iglesias Lukin, Director and Chief Curator of Visual Arts.

Join us live on Instagram from your cell phone, or watch here and on YouTube live or after, for a series of remote visits to artists' studios to bring Americas Society's Visual Arts public programs to your home. Every Wednesday and Friday this month, contemporary artists will dialogue with our Visual Arts department about their work and practice.

About the artist:

Anabella Papa (b. 1979, Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires, Argentina) considers herself a self-taught artist. She started drawing on a piece of paper her dad gave her at five years old and studied arts at the University of La Plata but didn't complete her degree. In 2005, she began making mostly paintings, and years later she started experimenting with other materials including ceramic, drawing, and performance. Her work deals with themes around daily life, sentiments, and the oneiric world. She is influenced by art brut, freedom of expression, and doing for the sake of doing, without labels.

Visit the Americas Society Visual Arts YouTube Channel for recordings of In the Studio Series and other previous events.

Follow the conversation on Instagram: #IntheStudioAS | @americassociety.visualarts

More digital content from Visual Arts at Americas Society:

• Read the exhibition catalogue for Feliciano Centurión: Abrigo.
• Watch the documentary Feliciano Centurión: Abrazo Íntimo al Natural, directed by Mon Ross (2016).
• Watch videos of recent events:
  • Art at a Distance: Promoting Visual Arts during the Health Crisis
  • Curator's Perspective – Jacopo Crivelli Visconti
  • "I Am Reborn at Every Moment" – Contemporary Reflections on Feliciano Centurión and AIDS
  • Ulises Carrión – Art, Mail, Books, and So…
  • Book Launch: Alejandra Seeber – Picture This Featuring the Artist in Conversation with Guillermo Kuitca

Image caption: Anabella Papa. Courtesy of the artist.