Coordenadas Residencia in collaboration with The Red Head Gallery

Guadalupe Carrizo at Coordenadas Residencia

Shapes of the Extraordinary: Guadalupe Carrizo and Paloma Ludueña

July 16 – August 2, 2025
Opening Reception: Wednesday, July 16, 5 – 8pm
Artists Talk: Visit redheadgallery.org for full details.
The Red Head Gallery, Toronto

Shapes of the extraordinary presents a dialogue between the works of Argentinian artists Guadalupe Carrizo and Paloma Ludueña. The proposal stems from a premise that architect and artist Francesco Careri borrowed from the Parisian Flâneurs: “Wasting time = gaining space.” It focuses on the artists’ work processes and the materiality of the pieces as points of connection. In different ways, the artists suspend productive time and delve into the craft of weaving new possibilities to understand, appropriate, or expand their contexts.

These experimentations explore the relationship between subject and environment through textile production and performative practices. They are poetic readings of the everyday that stir programmed behaviours—calls to attention regarding cultural and political codes that either enable or restrict actions. These are subjective manifestations of a body that engages with space and proposes other ways of relating to it.

Paloma Ludueña (La Rioja, 1998) interacts with unexpected parts of the space through the sustained act of large-scale weaving with minimal tools. Her textile pieces are like prosthetics extending from her limbs, allowing her to broaden her capacities to embrace the gallery space and, in the same gesture, propose new ways of traversing it.

Guadalupe Carrizo (Tucumán, 1987) offers statements that awaken new perspectives. She plays with the edge of words, the softness of fabrics, and the sharpness of embroidery. In her constant exchange with others and with a vigilant eye, she detects and disarms, through artistic gestures, the hostile signs of capitalism and its resistance, crystallized in the landscape of everyday life.

“It is interesting how the artists expand the real possibilities of space through their artistic practices. They involve their bodies and engage in concrete movements to dissolve functional existence and allow new zones of contact to emerge. Non-places to be explored—alternative ones with their own symbolic values.”
—Excerpt from the curatorial text by ​​Daniela Arroyo

Paloma Ludueña at Coordenadas Residencia

This exhibition is part of the exchange project developed by Coordenadas Residencia and Red Head Gallery. The exchange between these organizations—based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Toronto, Canada, respectively—aims to promote the circulation of artworks by artists from both institutions within a professional and international context. This aligns with one of Coordenadas’ main goals: to serve as a bridge between different actors in the contemporary art field.

About the Artists

Guadalupe Carrizo (Argentina, 1987) is a visual artist, photographer, and environmental activist. She holds a degree in Fine Arts from the National University of Tucumán. She is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Latin American Art at the National University of Cuyo. She has exhibited in Denmark, Belgium, Uruguay, Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil, participating in solo and group shows. She has received various grants for training and research as well as for artistic creation. She was awarded first prize in the 1st Regional Contest “Reciclando,” among others. In 2022, she completed a residency at La Paternal Espacio-Proyecto with the project Como en casa, relevamiento ambiental en territorio ajeno (At Home: Environmental Survey in Foreign Territory). In 2024, she organized the 1st Artistic Ecology Conference at the Memorial da América Latina in São Paulo, Brazil. Since 2011, she has been a member of Pro-Eco Grupo Ecologista, where she collaborates in coordinating environmental awareness and preservation initiatives. She lives in Tucumán and frequently travels from there to carry out her work in teaching, activism, and artistic practice.

Paloma Ludueña (La Rioja, Argentina, 1998) holds a degree in Visual Arts from the National University of Córdoba. She has participated in the CCK School of Arts and Crafts and PAC seminars. Her interests revolve around the conventional uses and experiences of domestic space, using textiles not only as a material but also as a way of thinking. She believes in everyday life as both a theoretical framework and raw material storage, and in contradiction as a formal stance. She is a member of the artist collective Andamio Estudio and the curator and manager of PLEGABLE, a self-managed exhibition space that operates in her own apartment. She represented the UNC Faculty of Arts at the Mercosur University Arts Festival held at Museo de la Cárcova, Buenos Aires. Ludueña has taken part in various group exhibitions in both Córdoba and Buenos Aires. She currently lives and works in Buenos Aires.

About Coordenadas Residencia

Coordenadas Residencia is a prestigious four-month visual arts residency located in Buenos Aires. Open to both Argentinian and international artists working across all visual disciplines. Situated in the vibrant cultural heart of the city, the program fosters deep engagement with the local art ecosystem. Participants receive a dedicated workspace and weekly mentorship through clinical feedback sessions, seminars by national and international visiting artists and theorists, and regular classes on contemporary art practice. The residency also includes guided visits to museums, galleries, and artist studios, along with open-studio events and a final exhibition showcasing the work developed during the program.

Learn more: www.coordenadasart.com/residencia

The Red Head Gallery holds annual open calls for exhibition rental opportunities, with available spots in the summer and December.

Visit redheadgallery.org for more details and how to apply.

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Image descriptions:
1. An installation by Guadalupe Carrizo at Coordenadas Residencia. The image features banners with text embroidered onto them, hung at various heights surrounding a large door opening into an adjacent gallery. The wall beyond the threshold features small works hung on a wall and a textile cutout of two large knives crossed on the floor.
2. View of an installation by Paloma Ludueña showing a person with long hair in a ponytail dressed in dark clothing leaning into a woven band of white fabric that spans a wide threshold to a white room.