Nicole Mazza
Encuentro entre el acá y el más allá.
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Foto de sala de la muestra "Blandir el quiebre" en CRUDO
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El mundo a mis dedos
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Gainesville, Florida. United States.
Nicole Mazza works with fabrics, embroidery, sewing, and hand-dyeing. She uses religious references, telenovela stereotypes, and pop culture as reflections of human conditioning, contrasting the delicacy of embroidery, mostly related to a feminine tradition, with sexualized images. She is interested in the iconography of women seen through the lens of socially constructed fantasies over time. “She, the constructed, deconstructed, and reconstructed woman, devoured and fragmented.”
As a first-generation Portuguese immigrant, Nicole learned the traditions of weaving, sewing, and embroidery from her maternal grandmother. She views sewing as an act of repairing something that has been broken. The figures are often twisted: bodies in positions of discomfort and impossibility. Limbs intertwine, wrap, reach, and desire. They sometimes show acts of cannibalism, illustrating how society consumes women. Her current aesthetic phase interweaves the delicate and the grotesque with an erotic veil, representing the ruptures and fissures in the social fabric.
She graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011, where she studied painting and textile arts. In 2015, she founded “She / Folk,” a feminist art collective focused on curatorial projects and publications, showcasing works by female or gender-identified artists. After completing a residency at Fundación ACE in Buenos Aires in 2014, Nicole moved to Argentina to focus on her art and tango.
She has exhibited her works in Buenos Aires, Rosario, Córdoba, Santiago de Chile, Punta del Este, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Gainesville in exhibitions and art fairs. She has also shown her work at art fairs such as ArteBA (Buenos Aires), Frieze (London), and Pinta (Miami). Her work has been selected for numerous art competitions such as “La Fugaz” (Castagnino + Macro, 2019 and 2022, Argentina), “Fondo Nacional de las Artes” (2021, Argentina), and “Salón Nacional de Artes Visuales - Textiles” (2022, 2023, Argentina), receiving a Special Mention from the jury in 2023 for the work "Sobremesa." Her work has been reviewed by Vice Magazine and recognized by The New York Times and The New Yorker.
Notable recent solo exhibitions include: “Canto del cisne” at Centro Cultural Borges (September 2023, Buenos Aires); “El deseo de no querer,” curated by Irene Gelfman at Quimera Galería, in co-production with CRUDO (April 2023, Buenos Aires); “Blandir el quiebre,” curated by Tamara Alarcón Castrillejo at CRUDO (May 2022, Rosario); the group exhibition “Glimpses – We are what we see” curated by Auronda Scalera and Lidia Ravviso as part of Frieze London (October 2022, London); and “Temporal atemporal” curated by Yuyo Gardiol, at CCD Arte (Punta del Este, Uruguay).
She lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Press and Digital Publications:
- El canto del cisne en el Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires
- Blandir el quiebre en El Mirador Provincial
- Massive Hand-Stitched Embroideries Show the Kardashians' Last Supper en Vice
- Nicole Mazza en residencia ACE
- Nicole Mazza en No Tokens
- Féros #02 en Les presses du réel
- The Hive Gallery and Studios: A Thriving Art Community en Art and Cake (Los Angeles)
- Entrevista a Nicole Mazza en Mapart
- Where are the great women artists?: She/Folk at IDIO en A Woomen's Thing. Proyecto de curaduría.
- She/Folk closing party en Idio Gallery. Proyecto de curaduría
- Crossing Over en New York Times
- Crossing Over en Newyorker
- Subtle protest en Artefact Magazine
- These Pussy Pipes Remind Us “We Have Been Smoking Out Of Dicks en A Work Station
