Genietta Varsi investigates, from a scultural perspective, how matter (bodies) shape and transform the environment with their behaviors and viceversa. Varsi Works with multidisciplinary methodologies and tools combining art, medicine, biochemistry, ecology, mechanics and anthropology to think and unthink the use of the body in the day-to-day.
Varsi studied sculpture at the Faculty of Art and Design of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. She has developed plastic and theoretical research at the Uberbau_House and FAAP Artistic Residency residencies in Sâo Paulo, Brazil, at the Emergency Laboratory, COVID-19 (Interactive) Silo Arte e Latitude Rural, Brazil, in Molten Capital at the Museum of Contemporary Art- Quinta Normal de Santiago de Chile and won the Artus scholarship for the Delfina Foundation in London, England.
Vitamins O, B, D, C (2018)
Mixed technique sculpture
(wood table, glass containers, silicon, plastic, human and synthetic hair, nails, copper threads).
Variable dimensions
The horizontal shape of the de vertebrate canaloide (2018)
Drink from you, while you drink from me Stainless steel structure,
copper threads, water bomb and plastic pipes.
Mixed technique sculpture
(wood table, glass containers, silicon, plastic, human
and synthetic hair, nails, copper threads).
Variable dimensions
460 deaths (2 years collecting nails) (2018)
Imitation leather and human nails
Variable dimensions
The Thumb is the Executioner (2018)
Draw made with pencil, pen, latex and oil on bond and waxed paper
60 x 90 cm
From the series The Thumb is the Executioner (2018)
Collage and draw on paper
Variable dimensions
From the series The Thumb is the Executioner (2018)
Collage and draw on paper
Variable dimensions
The anguish of pain (face) (2018)
Silicon and nails sculpture
20 x 15 x 10 cm
Eat body eat / eat body eat (2018)
Plaster sculptures
20 x 10 x 10 cm
From the series
The Thumb is the Executioner (2018)
Collage and draw on paper
Variable dimensions
Flux distortion (2018)
Urine over cotton paper
90 x 60 cm approx.
Flux distortion (2018)
Urine over cotton paper
90 x 60 cm approx.