Julia Isídrez is a Guaraní Indigenous artist and a ceramicist who learned pottery from her mother, Juana Marta Rodas. Isídrez works within the Guaraní tradition, according to which the craft of pottery must be handed down from mother to daughter. Isídrez also learned from her mother how to take on the challenge of boldly incorporating forms and functions belonging to several different timespans. After her mother’s death, Isídrez continued investigating new paths that do not erase the ones she inherited: her continual, innovative experiments have not led her to forget the elemental force of clay, nor the antique Guaraní techniques. Nourished by different worlds, moved by the pure drive of aesthetics, her sculpted pots shift from hallucinatory, at times baroque, figuration, to the exactness of austere volumes and clean lines. Fed by a feverish imagination and backed by impeccable vocation where form is concerned, her work has become one of the most notable in her native country today.
This is the first time the work of Julia Isídrez is presented at Biennale Arte.
—Ticio Escobar
