Karina Glocker
Neighborhood — Unexpected Cartographies

Karina Glocker is a visual artist with a degree in visual arts from the IUNA with a focus on contemporary graphic expressions. Fragmentation, order, search, experimentation are words that build her artistic practice. They define her and question her in her daily work. She worked for thirteen years in cinema as a costume and set designer, experience that she takes as part of her training. Currently, she investigates the possibilities of graphic arts in Adriana Moracci’s workshop and explores other forms of art expansion in the interdisciplinary field of science, culture and nature.

In 2023, Karina came to our studio for a Production residency in which she developed graphic pieces that she then used for the construction of her artist’s book. During her process, an idea became a path of exploration of shapes and colors, which gave rise to various compositions and configurations that open the field to investigate and explore a territory within paper, sheets and unconventional formats in graphics.

ARTIST STATEMENT

As an urban inhabitant, the city presents itself to me as a big box of fragments, patterns, drawings of my own that I collect and then use with a careful selection for my works. Some of them shaped the process that explores the edges of the work, between an internal and an external space, in which there is a visual and a tactile quality. I choose to find a subtle structure to continue exploring. In the meantime, I wonder if this system is nothing more than a search, a way to sublimate a house of configurations to inhabit. As Didi Huberman mentions “… every space for reflection is carried by a thought that relates the parts, but this thought is not created anywhere”. I am interested in investigating these thoughts of external and internal spaces, the fragment stripped of its own becoming, forming a space of reciprocal relations in another happening.