Giselle Gorostiaga is a fine art artist and designer based in Berlin. Born and raised in Resistencia, a city in northern Argentina whose very name—Resistance—threads through her artistic practice. Rooted in a courage that seeks to break through the feeling of being tied under the structures of an ominous oppressive system and the societal impositions of being something “of use” within late capitalism. Her work is nourished by a non-anthropocentric vision, that dwells in the ever-shifting interplay of chaos and harmony that nature sustains among her countless species. She navigates the porous threshold between life and death, crafting a romantic inquiry into techno-political yearnings and the symbolic and critical dimensions of the architectures that govern our psyches, behaviors, and desires. From the peripheries of power, she conjures blurred reflections of selfhood, identity, the beauty and the beast, opening dialogues between alternate ways of imagining our current times.

 

Rooted in a childhood steeped in nature, Giselle adopts a resilient and sustainable approach in her artistic practice, working with natural fibers, roots, earth, clay, bioplastics, and resins interwoven with discarded industrial waste like cement, metal, wood, textiles, and the toxic remnants of a decaying system. Merging both worlds, nature and man-made almost as inseparably dystopic.

Her pieces often resemble relics in decay or fragile treasures interlaced with fragments of debris, objects that evoke the ambiguity of an unsettling sense of time and space, prompting viewers to reconsider familiar concepts by delving into new realms.

 

Due to her use of perishable and mutable organic materials, Giselle’s work is bound to transformation and at times, disappearance. Its impermanence challenges the conventional preservation of art, questioning the commodification of artworks that are inherently transient in a system that seeks to maintain, reproduce, and market what is, by its very essence, destined to embrace change.