Fabiana Barreda

Fabiana Barreda (Buenos Aires, Argentina. July 27, 1967), is an Argentine photographer, performer, installations and multimedia artist. Her work specializes in the body, desire and politics of gender..
== Biography and education ==
She is the daughter of the art critic Rosa Faccaro and the archaeologist Luis Federico Barreda Murillo. Mother of Vladimir Zantleifer Barreda. She studied Psychology at the University of Buenos Aires, where she directs the Art Gallery of the Faculty of Psychology where she makes visible the work of young artists. At the end of her university career, she dedicated her search to the artistic area and studied psychoanalysis, philosophy and art history. In 1996 she obtained a grant from the Antorchas Foundation to participate in the Barracas Workshop.
== Career and artistic work ==
From the beginning, the theme of desire was outlined as one of her artistic concerns, for which she approached her work using paradoxes as a procedure for creation. She has participated in solo and group exhibitions, both in Argentina and abroad since 1992. In 1996 she held her first solo show. From there, she made a series of performances and videos building interdisciplinary projects between art and science. Video installation is a recurring medium in the artist's work.
== Prizes and awards ==
The artist has received the following distinctions: 
• Mention by Object. Young Art Biennial of Buenos Aires (1993) 
• Photographer of the Year Award from the Argentine Association of Art Critics (1999). 
• Leonardo Award for Photographer of the Year awarded by the Museum of Fine Arts of Buenos Aires (2000) 
• Second Prize in Photography at the Fundación Klemm Prize, Argentina (2000) 
• Mention in the Creativity Hall of the National Fund for the Arts, Argentina (2000) 
• Honorable Mention of the Banco Nación Award, Argentina (2001) 
• Second Prize in the Photography Hall of the Castagnino Museum, Argentina (2001) 
• Acquisition of the Habitat Project - Sugar Architecture: Casita de Tucumán de Azúcar. Castagnino de Rosario + Macro Museum. 2001 
• Diploma of Merit in Visual Arts-Installation awarded by the Konex Foundation, Argentina (2002)
• Selection at the VII Biennial of Havana, Cuba (2000) 
• Selection at the Rotterdam Architecture Biennale, Holland (2003) 
• Third Mention of the National Photography Salon. Buenos Aires, Argentina (2007) 
• Chandon Buenos Aires Photo Award. Buenos Aires, Argentina (2007) 
• Third Prize for New Supports and Installations. National Hall. Palais de Glace. Buenos Aires, Argentina (2008)
• Citi Creative Woman Award + University of Palermo. Buenos Aires, Argentina (2015) 45 
• New Facilities and Alternative Media Award Selection for Sound Body - Reactable Alphabet, application for Ipad support (Apple) and electronic system created by the Pompeu Fabra University. National Hall. Palais de Glace (2015)
== Curator ==
Her path in curatorship began in 1987. Since 2010 she has been curating the gallery of the Ricardo Rojas Cultural Center, Buenos Aires University, where she develops exhibitions on neo-feminism and technology, among which are "Expanded Body Deconstruction", "Extreme Body Sensitivity Digital" among many others. In 2016, she curated "Body & Desire", a collective exhibition at the Arte x Arte Fundación Alfonso y Luz Castillo gallery, in which 100 works by 65 artists were exhibited on the potential of the body as a political-erotic subject and its link with technology. The exhibition included works by renowned national and international photographers, such as Nan Goldin, Humberto Rivas, Cindy Sherman, Mariano Sardón, Sofía López Mañán and Marcos López, Erwin Olaf, Robert Mapplethorpe, Shen Wei, Janine Antoni. Also, in 2018, together with Joseph Kugielsky and Matias Roth, she curated the collective exhibition Infinito at the Jewish Museum of Buenos Aires, in which artists such as Liliana Porter, Joseph Kosuth, Luis Benedit, Mildred Burton, Luis Felipe Noé, Pedro Roth and Graciela Sacco participate.
== Publications ==
In 1998 she edited the book La Ciudad Subterránea, a photographic essay with texts by Marc Augé, Clorindo Testa, Marcelo Pacheco and Jorge López Anaya with the presentation of Inés Katzenstein. From this editorial project arises an alternative publication entitled Habitat Project Manifesto that he made in 2001 that is part of the universe of his homonymous work. In 2018, it is part of the artistic catalog of the Ministry of Education of the Nation of the Argentine Republic. In 2019 she participated in the exhibition "Artists' Books from Latin America, Printed Matter" that took place at the Museum of Modern Art in New York - MoMa, an initiative that aims to make visible the work of the "artist's book" as an entity of work
Category:1967 births
Category:Argentine photographers
Category:Argentina women performers
Category:Argentine artists