Translations:Liliana Porter/5/en

Liliana Porter is the daughter of the film, theater and radio director Julio Porter and the poet and printmaker Margarita Galetar, which had an influence on her artistic sensibilities. At the age of 12 she joined the National School of Fine Arts. Her adolescent years took place in Mexico, where she continued her studies in visual arts and also took an interest in the world of literature, being particularly close to great writers such as Octavio Paz. In 1961 she returned to Argentina before traveling to New York in 1964, where she lives to this day. Her artistic approach began with printmaking and oil painting in around 1959, and over time would expand to include drawings, photographs, installations, video, theater and art in public spaces. Although she does not limit herself to a single technique, she has acted as a point of reference in Latin America in the establishment of concepts around humor, anguish, time, banality in society and the possibility of or search for meaning in the human condition. Her career spans over half a century and has served to establish her as a trailblazer in Latin American conceptual art, and also as a benchmark in the feminist art of her generation. In 1959 her first individual exhibition was inaugurated at the Proteo Gallery in Mexico City, and her most recent was entitled “Situations” and held at the Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, Poland