Andrés Piña (b. 1992, La Consulta, Mendoza, Argentina) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice examines the unstable boundaries between the living and the inanimate. Working across sculpture, painting, installation, and performance, he creates environments in which bodies acquire the properties of objects and objects appear animated, blurring distinctions between the organic and the mechanical, the human and the non-human.
Piña's work confronts the classificatory systems that have historically structured modern thought, questioning binaries such as subject and object, nature and culture, sacred and profane, or active and passive agency. Through processes of transformation, displacement, and hybridization, his works reveal the porous relationships that exist between material forms, living bodies, technologies, and environments.
Central to his practice is a material archaeology of everyday life. Drawing attention to ordinary objects, minor technologies, and overlooked gestures, Piña investigates how materials accumulate histories of use, memory, and transformation. His paintings often function as acts of invocation, allowing impossible artifacts, speculative organisms, and alternative worlds to emerge alongside his sculptural and performative works.
By dissolving the hierarchies through which reality is conventionally organized, Piña proposes a more fluid understanding of existence, where objects possess memory, landscapes migrate, materials carry agency, and distinctions between the animate and inanimate become increasingly uncertain
PROJECTS
Group exhibition reconsiders Argentina’s surrealist artistic legacy from the unstable terrain of the contemporary world, displacing the human as its privileged subject and tracing agency across bodies, technologies, ecologies, matter, other forms of life, and invisible forces.