About Me
Biography
Florencia Sampietro is a contemporary Argentine artist whose practice focuses on painting as a space for symbolic and bodily exploration.
Her work investigates the relationship between the visible and the invisible, the material and the spiritual, through figures, gestures, and atmospheres that refer to internal states, memories, and transformation processes.
She works primarily with acrylics, oils, and mixed techniques, developing series where the body, the animal, and the ritual function as territories of transit and recognition.
Her practice understands painting as an act of presence and listening, where color and gesture operate as emotional and sensitive languages rather than narrative ones.
Artistic Process
I paint to remember who I am.
In the silence of color I find a way of listening: Body, intuition and memory dialogue in each stroke. My work is born from a need to transform the invisible into presence, to give shape to everything that vibrates before having a name.
I'm interested in the crossing between the earthly and the spiritual, between the organic and the symbolic. In my works, the figures are often portals: bodies, rituals, guardians, mirrors of the soul. I don't seek to represent, but to reveal the energy that lives beneath appearance.
I work with acrylics, oils, mixed techniques, glazes and spontaneous gestures that leave the process visible. Each layer of paint is a breath, an attempt to capture something that is always in movement.
Painting, for me, is a way of being alive: A practice of presence, a form of prayer without words.
My work is sustained between the force of color and the fragility of gesture. In that balance I find my truth: a painting that doesn't seek to please, but to remember the power of the sensible.