Magdalena Petroni
Magdalena Petroni is an artist born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1986), currently living between Mexico City and Buenos Aires.
Magdalena Petroni's practice aims to explore the limits between low and high culture as well as the derailment of human excess and the anarchic order that follows.
She produce installations, paintings and sculptures taking references from tuning, techno, cybernetic imagery, horror and science fiction. In her works dissimilar objects are assembled and related in a frantic way exploring the alterity, the strange, the fascination with the exterior, the extrasensory in relation to the alienated. That which is beyond ordinary experiences.
Through her work she investigates the dynamism of social, technological and sexual changes driven by capital. The mixture of excitement and anxiety before the imaginaries of the monstrous present, where ideas, impossible dualities, inherited by the modern conception of the world of mind/body, culture/nature, subject/object, human/non human, masculine/feminine, seem to disintegrate. Thinking an object-oriented ontology, considering anthropocentrism as a privilege of the humans against non-humans.
Magdalena currently lives and works in Mexico City. She has a degreein Visual Arts from IUNA and has complemented her training in the SOMA Program (2023, Mexico City) and in the Artists Program of the Univer-sidad Torcuato Di Tella (2020-2021, Buenos Aires). Her work has been exhibited in solo shows, such as ‘Traumacore’ (2024, General Expenses, Mexico City), ‘Alaridos más largos que la noche’ (2022, Ruina, Oaxaca) and ‘Trastorno de Duelo Prolongado’ (2021, Nixon, Mexico City). She will have her first solo show in New York City, at Sculpture Center in 2026.
︎︎︎CV ︎@maggie_petroni
She produce installations, paintings and sculptures taking references from tuning, techno, cybernetic imagery, horror and science fiction. In her works dissimilar objects are assembled and related in a frantic way exploring the alterity, the strange, the fascination with the exterior, the extrasensory in relation to the alienated. That which is beyond ordinary experiences.
Through her work she investigates the dynamism of social, technological and sexual changes driven by capital. The mixture of excitement and anxiety before the imaginaries of the monstrous present, where ideas, impossible dualities, inherited by the modern conception of the world of mind/body, culture/nature, subject/object, human/non human, masculine/feminine, seem to disintegrate. Thinking an object-oriented ontology, considering anthropocentrism as a privilege of the humans against non-humans.
Magdalena currently lives and works in Mexico City. She has a degreein Visual Arts from IUNA and has complemented her training in the SOMA Program (2023, Mexico City) and in the Artists Program of the Univer-sidad Torcuato Di Tella (2020-2021, Buenos Aires). Her work has been exhibited in solo shows, such as ‘Traumacore’ (2024, General Expenses, Mexico City), ‘Alaridos más largos que la noche’ (2022, Ruina, Oaxaca) and ‘Trastorno de Duelo Prolongado’ (2021, Nixon, Mexico City). She will have her first solo show in New York City, at Sculpture Center in 2026.
︎︎︎CV ︎@maggie_petroni