Exhibitions
The Devil's Disinterment: Carrie Bencardino's Pictorial Revolution at MALBA
Carrie Bencardino (born in Pilar, Buenos Aires, in 1993) is an Argentine visual artist whose work encompasses painting, performance, tattooing, and music, and is characterized by a strong presence of countercultural elements, queer scenes, and references to the underground. Her non-binary identity, her experience with different expressive languages, and her connection to the fantastic and the dark make her work a contemporary proposal that transcends the traditional boundaries of visual art.
In her first exhibition at the Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires (MALBA), entitled The Devil's Exhumation , Carrie Bencardino (Buenos Aires, 1993) presents a series of previously unpublished works in Room 1 of the Malba. Her artistic practice, permeated from the outset by a strong narrative imprint, draws on the visual imagery of the underground and collective counterculture spaces, exploring diverse forms of projection and expansion of the narrative.
Carrie Bencardino's work unfolds within a somber aesthetic, where the marginal, the pagan, and the emotional intertwine in a haunting landscape. Her narratives emerge in dialogue with powerful subcultures—metal, punk, queer, and the supernatural—weaving stories that pulsate at the margins of the visible. Painting, her central medium, is enriched by the power of tattooing and performativity, where the gestures and fluidity of bodies merge with the density of the pictorial material. In this universe, Bencardino embraces appropriation as an act of aesthetic and conceptual resistance, giving life to hybrid images that dare to converse with popular icons and cult figures, challenging the boundaries between the sacred and the profane.
Carrie Bencardino is positioned as one of the most prominent emerging artists on the contemporary Argentine scene, with a body of work that challenges not only the boundaries of art but also social, identity, and aesthetic conventions. The Devil's Exhumation , curated by Carlos Gutiérrez, was born from the recognition of a potential crisis of the imagination, exacerbated by political ups and downs and the expansion of a way of thinking that fragments the ties between people. Composed primarily of paintings, the exhibition seeks to transform the gallery into a hybrid space: almost a bar, almost a cinema, almost a club.
Likewise, the works function as windows into situations that could occur anywhere, between the real and the fantastic. For Bencardino, it is urgent to create new tools that allow for the construction of other possible worlds.
