During the month of March, Argentine artist Belén López de Carlo participated in the El Galpón Aluminé Residency in Aluminé, Neuquén (Argentina), a project created by artist Horacio Occhi. During the residency, Belén participated in the HAPPY BABY workshop, led by artist Sandra Guascone: “Breathing and blowing through artistic practices through ordinary experiences. The world as a flow that penetrates us and we penetrate, we swallow, we breathe, we give back. The proposal is to contemplate/auscultate our images through affection, breathing, the heart, vocalization, movement. Blending with the rest of things, immersing ourselves in our Patagonian environment.”

We share Belén López de Carlo’s residency project:

Landscape Metamorphosis

During my residency at Galpón Aluminé, I found in the stillness of the river a mirror of what dwells in my inner world. On the first day, I sat down to contemplate it, and due to the sunlight hitting the water and vegetation, I saw beings similar to those in my Metamorphosis series forming on the shore.

I took a photograph of that moment when nature seemed to reveal its hidden dimension, and later, in the studio, I translated that vision into a drawing: a being that unfolds in organic and fluid forms, as if sprouting from the earth and rising in expansion.

From drawing, I moved on to painting, giving it body and vibration through volume and color. In that process, I understood that nature and my imagination are part of the same flow, manifesting in different languages.