The work of La Chola Poblete (Guaymallén, Mendoza, Argentina, 1989) includes watercolor paintings, oil
landscapes, bread sculptures and iron structures, which build, not without tension and violence, a multi-part
bidimensional installation that reproduces, in a key of denunciation and vindication, the dynamics of the cult.
Taking up again the tools and formats around which she built her own language and iconography, La Chola
intervenes in historical and contemporary imaginaries to explore the ambiguities and undefinable zones of the
narrative of the past and the current political discourse. As if she knew that even in the stereotyping and
exoticization of the original peoples, their mythical force survives, the artist uses her own body and invents her
own mythograms, in graphic interventions that, between the delicacy of drawing and the power of branding,
save not only their history, but also their desire for the present.
Highlights among La Chola’s recent solo shows include Guaymallén (Palais Populaire, Berlin, 2023),
Pap Art (Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon, 2023) and Ejercicios del llanto (Museo Moderno, Buenos Aires, 2022).
La Chola was included in Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere, the main exhibition at Biennale Arte
curated by Adriano Pedrosa (Venice, 2024), during which she was awarded a Special Mention, and took part of
the experimental development platform for transdisciplinary artists Laboratorio de Acción (Complejo Teatral
de Buenos Aires, 2019), MARCO Arte Foco (Buenos Aires, 2018), and studied visual arts at Universidad
Nacional de Cuyo (Mendoza, Argentina, 2009-2014). She lives and works in Buenos Aires.