Gisella Mailen Scotta (1988, Córdoba, Argentina) studied Visual Arts and earned a Diploma in Drawing at the Figueroa Alcorta School. She complemented her education through clinics, workshops, and artistic gatherings. She has participated in artist residencies such as La Pinguela (Misiones), Manta (San Martín de los Andes), Rotativas (Chile), Casa Garita (Mexico), La Sala que Habito (Córdoba), Biblioteca América Elda Nancy (Rosario), and Las Cuevas (Cerro Colorado, Córdoba).
Her work has been included in exhibitions such as Museo sin tiempo, camaradería talleres y otras modernidades, curated by Teresa Ricardi and Sebastián Vidal Mackinson at the Eduardo Sívori Museum of Plastic Arts (Buenos Aires); La retirada, lloviendo, una octogésima parte del futuro, open studio by Aníbal Buede and Daniel Melero at 220 Cultura Contemporánea (Córdoba); and Qué cosa, la poesía visual?, curated by Guillermo Daghero at the Kirchner Cultural Center (Buenos Aires).
She recently presented a solo exhibition titled Un animal demasiado solitario se come a sí mismo at Galería Satélite (Córdoba). She has also participated in numerous national art salons and competitions. She currently lives and works in Córdoba, Argentina.
I am not pretty, I am worse
The work takes as its starting point a series of paintings by Émile Antoine Bayard: The Duel and The Reconciliation. These depict a duel considered to be the first emancipated one between women. The diptych of drawings, embedded in metal swords, presents on one side a graphite copy of a photograph featuring two women. Alongside this image is a text, also done in graphite. The phrase is from the book The Ones with No Part: Marriages and Divorces Between Feminism and Marxism, by Cinzia Arruzza: That courage was no rarity. There is something that hovers over it, an enthusiasm for great feats and memorable exploits, the epic or the heroic.
Gisele d’Estoc, 2021
From the series No soy bonita soy peor
Graphite on paper impaled on metal spear
27.5in x 51.25in x 12in
Gisele d’Estoc, 2021
From the series No soy bonita soy peor
Graphite on paper impaled on metal spear
27.5in x 51.25in x 12in