The body of works that make up this exhibition attests to the irruption of Florencia Sciutto into the field of art with the stillness of fire.
A meticulous, probing observation of the everyday—one that began with monochromatic exploration to achieve mastery of form—reveals a working agenda that tirelessly pursues higher aims. The generation of textures accompanies a tactile proposition: how do we caress the everyday?

The line seeks to break the object, to de-hierarchize what documentary vision has solidified into visual narratives that the artist aims to challenge. Like a flame intent on devouring the hierarchies that the visual arts have long established between figure and ground.

The naked eye cannot do it: the artist makes it happen. We see the search expand toward a fuller, never chaotic palette, harmonizing that disarticulation from a lively and welcoming place.

Using only colors, eliminating black—in the lineage of the Impressionists—she appropriates form and generates the values that reveal that material “of the background.” Where we would not look, she invites us to play. Every element appears; even the support becomes evident.

Working with the minimum possible matter: aerating the composition, oxygenating what is combusting within the gaze. The support also has a body. The artist acknowledges it and incorporates it into her narrative, provoking reflection and dialogue around it. Recycled elements appear, remnants of previous works, furniture backings; even preexisting nails are summoned and transmuted within the dialogue she proposes with form. That prior use, that trait that now becomes texture, is the material being contested. The environmental mandate to reuse is carried beyond its own limits: it opens a dialogue between eras, between works, and displaces what has been endowed with meaning within the apertures of “good taste.” If it is distorted, deformed, or marked by accident, it is because desire has broken through the artist’s will.

With the determination to paint even what the computer screen displayed during confinement—when public space was closed and places to obtain supplies were shut down indefinitely—the works and gestures that comprise this exhibition become an invitation to let burst open whatever representation we had formed of the fire we have just survived.**

Oriana Cosso
Wall text for the exhibition Transcripciones, CCNU, 2021.