Biography

Gaspar Aveta (Córdoba, Argentina, 1992) is a visual artist and ceramicist living and working in Paris. His work explores matter as a territory of memory, tension, and transformation.

Through ceramics, installation, video, and image, he builds devices in which materials reveal their fractures, their resistances, and their narrative potential. Initially trained in cinema, he brings a temporal and spatial dimension to his practice that gives the work a sculptural, immersive presence.

He works with clay, mineral pigments, and lithium — materials charged with geological memory and contemporary economic stakes. His forms in tension — folding surfaces, fragile structures, matter in transformation — do not illustrate a territory: they activate it as a sensitive space where the material and the symbolic meet.

Based in Paris since 2024, he is currently part of the Hérodote programme at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris. He trained at the Municipal Ceramics School of Lomas de Zamora (2018) and at the Film and Television School of the National University of Córdoba (2011–2015).

I work from the awareness of inhabiting a fractured time, where territories erode, forms crack, traditional crafts disappear, and identities shift.

I consider territory a living body: political, affective, and unstable. A space crossed by the tensions of extractivism, inequality, and the environmental crisis. These dynamics transform not only landscapes but also social structures and the know-how tied to a direct relationship with matter.

In this context I use clay, mineral pigments, and lithium as materials and as signs. Charged with geological memory and contemporary economic stakes, they carry the traces of the forces that shape our present.

Through drawing, sculpture, and video I develop forms in tension: folding surfaces, fragile structures, matter in transformation. My work does not illustrate a territory; it activates it as a sensitive space where the material and the symbolic meet.