Influenced by the legacy of abstraction in 20th-century Latin American art, Argentine artist Cecilia Biagini examines the formal qualities of abstraction, with a particular emphasis on color and line, as she moves across media in her artistic explorations. In her untitled sewing machine drawings, Biagini blurs distinctions between textiles and drafting, resulting in works that range from rigidly structured to playful and improvisational. Subversion of medium and genre is integral to Biagini’s work, the effect of which, as noted by the poet Cecilia Pavón, is “as if the cerebral impersonality of geometry had only been a tool in service of the invention of new and unknown sensations.”
In the artist's words, "Sewing machine drawings were among the first works I made in Brooklyn, NY, after arriving from Buenos Aires. They have a topographic quality, flowing across the paper's surface, rushing forward, with the machine guiding the movement. They move randomly and embrace accidents along the way."