Artist
Josefina LabourtJosefina Labourt
Josefina Labourt (Buenos Aires, 1985) is an artist who investigates the complexities of corporeality and language through various operations and materialities, including collage, oil, resin, paper-mâché, and video. This material experimentation is reflected in her works through the inclusion of organic elements such as flowers, tree bark, and eggshells. In her encounters with the viewer, the works propose a visceral and affective experience, disturbing normative aesthetic orders as well as the viewer’s own bodily perception. Skin—as a limit and point of contact with other bodies, as well as a record of memories in its folds and wounds—serves as a recurring motif in her work. Her recent projects explore themes related to aging and femininity, addressing both individual physical experiences and social constructs.
Labourt holds a degree in Visual Arts from the Universidad Nacional de las Artes (Argentina) and an MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London (UK). She has exhibited her work both locally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions at venues such as PIEDRAS (2019-2021), Swivel Gallery (New York, 2024), Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (2022-23), Museo Larreta (2021), Galería BARRO (2019), Centro Cultural Recoleta (2019), Palais de Tokyo (2018), the Nexialism Center for Research (Paris, 2016), and Macro Museo Castagnino (2013), among others.
QUE MIS PIES TIENEN RAIZ, DE LA SERIE SEGUNDA PIEL, 2025
Oil on canvas, gauze, and papier-mâché
150 x 210 x 50 cm
Project developed for the 2025 Braque Prize
NIDIA ENCORVADA, DE LA SERIE SEGUNDA PIEL, 2025
Metal structure, paper, gauze, polyester resin, and oil.
123 x 80 x 100 cm
Project developed for the 2025 Braque Prize
DETRÁS DEL TELÓN, DE LA SERIE SEGUNDA PIEL, 2025
Wood, siliconized wadding, gauze, polyester resin, oil, automotive lacquer.
50 x 70 x 8 cm
Project developed for the 2025 Braque Prize
ESTOY VIVA, 2024
Mixed media (fabric, resin, paper, wood , acrylic and oil paint)
72 x 52 x 15 cm
A GLIMMERING DUSK, 2023
Towel, epoxy putty, oil and acrylic painting, polyester resin, collage
53 x 35 x 28 cm
FLORES Y PIEDRAS, 2023
Solo-show at Liste Art Fair, Base
FRESCA Y HERMOSA, 2019
Pieces of painted foam, zipper.
105 x 600 cm
ILUMINADA Y ETERNA, ENDURECIDA Y TRANQUILA, 2023
Fabrics, sea sponge, polyester resin, fake eyelashes, eggshells.
32 x 20 x 30 cm
MÁSCARA DE SEÑORA, 2021
Oil on canvas, 150 x 120 cm
PAISAJE DE PIEL Y PASO DEL TIEMPO, 2021
Oil on canvas
150 x 120 cm
INVISIBLE, 2021
Oil on canvas, 190 x 140 cm
HINCHADX Y MARCADX, 2021
Oil on canvas, collage, epoxy resin, painted eggshells and fleece,, 120 x 50 x 8 cm
ESTE ES MI CUERPO HACIENDO ESTA COSA, 2021
Silicone fleece, voile, acrilic, vynil glue and buttons on embasty canvas, 90 x 50 x 20 cm
UN AGUA SIN FIN, 2019
Leather, elastic, stocking, wadding, wire, textil, synthetic enamel and and eva gum
140 x 35 x 120 cm
LA LLAGA PERFECTA, 2019
Solo exhibition at PIEDRAS
ARRUGAS EN LA FRENTE, 2019
Oil on canvas, epoxy resin, orange peel, hair, dyed wadding and painted voile.
90 x 30 cm
FALTA UN UMBRAL, 2019
Plastic, synthetic enamel, chewing gum and collage
57 x 100 x 22 cm
DESEO Y ABYECCIÓN, 2019
Cartapesta, acrylic paint, furs collage, silicon, on welded metal bases.
90 x 150 x 90 cm
PIEL DE CORTEZA, 2019
Oil on canvas with relief (newspaper, plastic, tape and metal beams)
190 x 145 x 15 cm
LA LLAGA PERFECTA, 2019
Diptych. Oil, collage, curitas and epoxy resin on canvas.
140 x 243 cm
COSTRAS Y HARAPOS, 2017
Oil on canvas, sanded voile and dyed, skin color and wet net courtain
145 x 190 cm
YO TAMBIÉN, 2017
Oil on canvas
145 x 190 cm
QUERIDA OTREDAD, 2017
Performance
Ciclo Performance Masiva
WITHOUT RESISTANCE, 2016
Painting, sculpture, video and installation
Muestra individual en Goldsmiths University (Londres)
WHAT?, 2016
Video monocanal con sonido, 4:30 min
90 x 30 cm
What? when? how much? with who? A voice spits out these questions and others, increasing in intensity and speed as a hand examines and rearranges through touch an abject combination of foods. This video follows my line of interest to explore the relationships between materiality and meaning, food being one of the primordial and most loaded materials with which we come into contact as living beings.
SWIMMING IN THE LONELY POOL, 2016
Performance of the exhibition “Project your desire (here)”
Galerie Dix9, París
SIN TÍTULO, 2016
Oil, hair, wax finger and ear on canvas, voile and embroidery
145 x 190 cm
PIEL Y PALABRAS, 2016
Oil, wax, tuft of hair on canvas in a supporting aluminium welded structure
145 x 190 x 40 cm
LA FUERZA DOMESTICADORA DE LO PEQUEÑO, 2014
Big Sur Galería, Buenos Aires
PUESTA EN ESCENA, 2012
Oil on canvas
115 x 180 cm
VIGOR LINYERA, 2012
Oil paintings intallation on doors and wood, hair nest
Solo exhibition at Rayo Lazer
Coraza Fantasma
SEPTEMBER 19 TO NOVEMBER 14, 2026
Tercer cerebro
AUGUST 23 TO OCTOBER 14, 2023
Polípticxs
MAY 15, 2022 TO JUNE 11, 2022
Señora
MAY 14 TO AUGUST 8, 2021
La llaga perfecta
AUGUST 3–30, 2019
ARTEBA
AUGUST 29–31, 2025
ARTEBA
SEPTEMBER 1–3, 2023
LISTE
JUNE 12–18, 2023
Josefina Labourt “la viajerita”, group show at centro cultural y archivo histórico (cafayate, argentina)
Josefina Labourt “continente oscuro”, group show curated by leandro martínez depietri at macba (buenos aires, argentina)
Josefina Labourt “fagmentos”, group show at museo de arte y memoria (la plata, argentina)
Press participants of the klemm award 2025 (buenos aires)
