Tincal lab celebrates the next event of Simultaneous Openings in Miguel Bombarda area on March 21st, Saturday, with the presentation of the individual exhibition by Vanesa Perez Cepeda. Visit Tincal lab, shop 3 of CCBombarda, we will welcome the artist from 4pm to 8pm.

Vanesa Perez Cepeda was the winner of the Award Argentine Jewel in the IV Latin American Biennial of Contemporary Jewelry, an award that included an individual exhibition at Tincal lab, a collaboration with Joyeros Argentinos Association. We are now happy to present her work.
To visit until May 14th.

STATEMENT:
“We are landscape, personal landscapes.
“The river, despite its geographic excess, with its profusion of bends and events, is coarse and more unmanageable than the entire universe.” (Juan Jose Saer)

From our most primitive humanity, we identify with the successive landscapes that inhabit us; we are surrounded by smells, sounds, textures, and images that turn us into body, experience.
From the moment we are born, smells, textures, and spaces enter us, building our language, our memory, and our imagination. We are landscape, personal landscapes.

I was born by the river.
I am from Santa Fe, Argentina, in the Paraná River basin (Paraná in Guaraní means father of rivers). The first pioneers entered through the Río de la Plata and navigated up the Paraná, crossing its waters all the way to Paraguay, venturing into Guaraní territory; they stayed on the banks of Santa Fe.
I am that blend of that brutal encounter and the later immigration that the first European war brought in waves of immigrants to the Argentine countryside.
My education, shaped by Argentine thinkers like Sarmiento, has a European perspective, and despite everything I do not see and was not taught, I find myself between pre-Columbian ceramics and European thought; images of my deepest origins emerge, I am moved by my landscape that comes through my hands, I am peripheral, precarious, textile, permeable.
This is my genealogy, I am mud and basket, canoe, water hyacinths, nets, and fish sailing.
I am a river, I go searching for it and recreating it, weaving and weaving myself.”

BIO:
Born in Santa Fe / Argentina, 1976.
Jeweler, weaver, textile artist, dancer and architect.
In 2017 she started her own contemporary jewelry brand Nifu ni fa, where she works with ceramics and the textile universe. From 2020 onwards, she also began a textile artistic journey.
In 2024, she wins the First Prize Argentine Jewel in the IV Latin American Biennial of Contemporary Jewelry with the work "The Weight of Earth".
In 2026 she participates in Slovenian Jewelry week with the collective Joyeros Argentinos. She took part in different exhibitions like Conjuring the Party / Hybrid experiences; Babble of a Prelude 2022/23 (The Cicadas Travels series) invited by La Brújula arte en tránsito (Región de Valparaíso Chile), VIII Textile Jewellery Show, Argentine Center of Textile Art CAAT (Buenos Aires, 2024).