ANDREA FASANI

*1953 Buenos Aires, lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Residency period : April  to June 2026

Andrea Fasani is an Argentine visual artist, performer and teacher, known for her work combining visual arts, performance, political memory and sound experimentation. She was born in Bahía Blanca in 1953 and lives in Buenos Aires. From 1993 onwards, she collaborated with the experimental musician Jorge Mancini on multimedia works presented notably at the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires. After teaching at the National School of Ceramics, the UNA and the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires, she set up her own studio in 1982 and has since trained a large number of artists.

Among her best-known projects is 30 (TREINTA), a participatory installation begun in 2006 centred on the 30,000 disappeared during the Argentine dictatorship. The work brings together thousands of notebooks containing the obituaries of the victims published in the newspaper Página/12, transforming the repeated writing of names into a collective act of remembrance. It is a work in progress that has been exhibited in venues such as the Plaza de Mayo and the Haroldo Conti Cultural Centre of Memory in Buenos Aires, as well as in museums, galleries and houses of memory throughout Argentina.

Project:

“Ever since I discovered the Garden of the Disappeared and learnt about its history and its presence in Meyrin, I felt it was the ideal place to pay tribute to our 30,000 disappeared with my work 30 (TREINTA) – Piel de Memoria, alongside the victims of enforced disappearances from around the world. The idea behind La Poblacion is to leave footprints, to inhabit the Garden with their presence, thereby reclaiming the lost footsteps of the victims.”