Da Rin, Flavia

She studied at the National University of Arts (UNA), formerly the Prilidiano Pueyrredón School, for five years, specializing in painting. Her approach to photography during those years was self-taught and influenced by the Y2K aesthetic universe prior to the internet explosion that occurred with the change of the millennium. From the year 2001, she began attending the workshop and work clinic of Diana Aisenberg. In 2002, her work was selected in the Currículum Cero competition (Ruth Benzacar Gallery). Between 2003 and 2005, she participated in Guillermo Kuitca's clinics as part of the Workshop Program for Visual Arts at the Ricardo Rojas Cultural Center (UBA-Kuitca). In 2003, she held her first solo exhibition at the Casona de los Olivera, and later, in 2004, she exhibited for the first time at the Ruth Benzacar Gallery. Through manipulation and digital retouching, Da Rin fuses self-portraits and images taken from the internet to compose complex and expressive scenes. With these tools throughout her career, she has embodied numerous characters: she has investigated femininity and its social stereotype, worked on the young girl as a model of exacerbated consumerism, and paid tribute to women artists who have been excluded from canonical narratives of art history. Although she resorts to fiction, Da Rin's work is strongly autobiographical and traces an emotional catalog of contemporary affective situations related to consumption, subjectivity, desire, and the body. Her work was part of the Argentine submission at the Busan Biennale (South Korea, 2006) and the Cuenca Biennale (Ecuador, 2007). Some of her most outstanding solo exhibitions include: "Who's That Girl?" (retrospective curated by Laura Hakel at the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires, 2019), Eyes Wide Open (curated by Julien Robson, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, United States, 2008), The Mystery of the Dead Child (Ruth Benzacar Gallery, Buenos Aires, 2008; La Capital Foundation, Rosario, 2011; Cultural Center of Spain, Córdoba, 2012; and MAC - Museum of Contemporary Art, Salta, 2012) and Interwar Terpsichore (Ruth Benzacar Gallery, Buenos Aires, 2014). Likewise, she has carried out works for design firms such as Cartier and Hermès. Her work belongs to numerous public and private collections.