Magdalena Petroni

General Expenses presents Traumacore by artist Magdalena Petroni.

Traumacore is an exhibition, an installation and a sculpture. It is a movie set, an empty factory at night, a cage without doors and a museological device. It is a haunted house, a hall of mirrors, a baroque machine and a delirium. It is an imaginary, a representation of trauma, an aesthetic movement and a psychotraumatological gesture. It is a taxidermy workshop, a bloody crucifix, a meme with a suicidal Hello Kitty and a cockfight. It is a hallway, an altar to ecstasy, a psychic’s office and a palenque.

Bio

Magdalena Petroni, Born in Argentina, currently lives and works in Mexico. She was trained at the National University of Art as a Lic. in visual arts. In 2015 she participated in the National Fund for the Arts Training grant at the Haroldo Conti cultural center. In 2020 she attended the Artists Program at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella and is currently studying the Di Tella and is currently attending the SOMA educational program. She participated in different residencies such as, Arte en la Antártida, Sur Polar, 2014, and La Verdi CDMX 2019. He made several solo exhibitions, the main ones are, Alaridos más largos que la noche, Runia (OAX), Trastorno de duelo prolongado Nixxon (CDMX), Plata Negra Ladrón Galería (CDMX), Escuerzo de Sangre Negra Pasto Galería (ARG) Déjame tener el valor de resistir la tentación de inventar una forma, Munar (ARG) y Oro Plata y Canela, Biquini Wax (CDMX), Técnicas de humo y tecnologías de ascenso, en Galería fundación el Mirador (ARG). She co-founded the critical thinking and production collective production La Sin Futuro in which I worked from 2012 to 2015 and we made among others the exhibition `Te lo prometo" In PROA foundation and Te Quiero Decir Algo at the Centro Cultural San Martín 2014. He participated in different awards and received an honorable mention in the Klemm Foundation Award and the Central Bank Painting Award.

Magdalena Petroni's practice aims to explore the limits between low and high culture as well as the derailment of human excess and the anarchic order that follows.

She produce installations, paintings and sculptures taking references from tuning, techno, cybernetic imagery, horror and science fiction. In her works dissimilar objects are assembled and related in a frantic way exploring the alterity, the strange, the fascination with the exterior, the extrasensory in relation to the alienated. That which is beyond ordinary experiences.

Through her work she investigates the dynamism of social, technological and sexual changes driven by capital. The mixture of excitement and anxiety before the imaginaries of the monstrous present, where ideas, impossible dualities, inherited by the modern conception of the world of mind/body, culture/nature, subject/object, human/non human, masculine/feminine, seem to disintegrate. Thinking an object-oriented ontology, considering anthropocentrism as a privilege of the humans against non-humans.

She studied at the National University of Art, the Artists Program from the Torcuato Di Tella University and SOMA.

— General Expenses