Marcela Di Stasio

I was trained in a family of creatives.

I am a visual artist and a multifaceted designer. In 1982 I graduated as an Interior Designer at the Library of the Council of Women and later entered the National School of Fine Arts "Prilidiano Pueyrredon" obtaining the title of Professor of Painting in 1992, since then I have dedicated myself to my work and teaching. I completed the Parabellium Seminar at the Cárcova High School. I completed a diploma in Art Therapy at the University of Mexico, from the UAC Visual Arts Center, 2012 and attended workshops and art clinics.

Among other techniques, I specialize in recycling natural fibers for the production of handmade paper and I master painting, drawing, PVC, gilding, silver leaf and Raku ceramic techniques.

I have received the following awards: Mention in Pintar 2021, Mention in El protagonismo y la Mujer (Municipality of La Plata), Mention, Cassará-Bicentenario Foundation.

I've embroidered it (NAT Art Residency - 06/2024)

The extraordinary environment of my art residency transported me to the most primary parts of my body, creating a very intimate relationship within my being, my heart flowing to nurture its birth.

I found a hidden spot, a marvelous cave, a space that enwrapped me and housed me, producing a very motivating sensation.

Within its silence, awoke my well-being and my wisdom. My life paused in order to live purely from emotion, I was filled with contemplation and hope.

And I think it was precisely because from so little there is so much - or perhaps it was the scenographic scenes of the stones that filled my soul.

It was from here that my work developed.

It came from nature and all that is in it.

Without knowing, or perhaps I was aware, I collected red earth from the floor of the Cave El Pendo, I scraped limestone from Cullalvera Cave for its ochre hues, and gathered gray stones from Tagle for their intricate shapes. I combined these earthy condiments with water to paint my objects.

And for me this is what it was all about, the process worth more than the result -- everything alive, examined, worked with -- it was where I could feel my very being vibrate.

Time doesn’t stop yet I was able to stop in order to experience this work.

The silences inside and outside the caves became festivals of life.

I sewed, painted and lived in honor of my ancestors.

My Embroidery

I searched for an ideal spot on the beach, one where the sea would not wash over the elected space. The pleasant sound of the water began my process of happiness, my sacred experience, a ritual for my soul. With my treasure embraced in my arms, hugged, my ancestors and I were led to the anointed place.

I studied the hours of the high tides and low tides, necessary to navigate my arrival to a large stone covered in lichens, lichens whose green color embody resilience and adaptability, and connect me with the living beings that we are. This is how I see my objects, each bestowed with the vestige of the land where homo sapiens, Neanderthals, lived. And this is how I feel cushioned, sensitive, spiritual. Arranging my objects one by one, the scene takes shape as I embroider it, with the belief that the sea shall leave it be.