born: Buenos Aires, Argentina
resides: Maastricht, Netherlands
travel: Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Mexico, Jamaica, USA, Germany, Italy, France, Portugal, Belgium, United Kingdom
education:
Post-Graduate Research Program, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands
Graduate Diploma in Graphic Design, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Photography, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Social Communication, Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, Argentina
employment:
Freelance Graphic Designer, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Graphic Designer, Doppelganger, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Graphic Designer, Bridger Conway, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Teacher Assistant, Morphology 2, chair Arq. Longinotti, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
POSTcard project:
RECEPTION
Welcome to POST. You have received postcard number x that, together with other 120, has been transferred from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Maastricht, NL to be re-printed. Now, 50 of those postcards are going back to its original place, whereas the other 70 will travel to different destinations around the world. All the addresses are Argentinean, regardless the place they reside now.
INTERVENTION
Describe an ideal place. You have two white surfaces - the front and backside - you can use as you want. Draw, write, design, think the place where you would like to be.
RETURN
Once you've finished your postcard you should send it to the address printed at the backside. The postcard must be sent without an envelope. You must cover postage costs. The deadline to send the postcard back expires March 30, 2003. After this date, the postcards that didnít return, will be considered lost.
PS
Together with the postcard you have received a sticker. You can stick it wherever you want: on personal objects or public spaces... or why not, in the mailbox where you are planning to send your postcard back. Documentation of the postcard stuck to the surface of your preference is welcomed.
THANKS
Thank you for your collaboration. Without your compromise the project doesnít make sense. The postcards will reunite in Maastricht to conclude the experience.
These are the instructions that are sent to each participant of the project together with his/her postcard. The postcards are tourist postcards of Buenos Aires, the city where I was born, which you can easily find at any souvenir store. Once in Maastricht, I printed two white surfaces in silkscreen, the front side covering the photograph. In the backside, I printed my name together with the address of the Jan van Eyck and stamped a number in red. Each postcard is numbered, and the number applies to the person the postcard was sent to.
All the participants of the project are, in same way, personally related to me: I first contacted friends and family in Buenos Aires and asked them to introduce me to someone they know (mostly friends and family of theirs) who are living abroad, people who left Argentina for any reason. This is how a kind of network was built where a friend in Buenos Aires would introduce me to his/her friend living abroad and probably this friend of a friend would introduce me to his/her friend also living abroad. That's how I reunite 120 people who I divided and classified into two main groups: the ones who stayed and the emigres. The instructions are basically the same for both groups but there is a significant difference: the residents in Buenos Aires are being asked to describe an ideal place whereas the emigres are asked to describe the place where they reside now: "Describe your place. You have two white surfaces - the front and backside - you can use as you want. Draw, write, photograph, document the place where you are".