Karina Sztein, born in Buenos Aires Argentina.Architect graduated from University of Belgrano (1994) Assistant to the chair on Design in the School of Architecture, University of Belgrano (1995-1996). Member of the Association of Visual Artists of the Argentinean Republic. Member of CAAT, Argentinean Center of Textile Art. Actually, she attends the Art Clinic of the Visual Artist Leila Tschopp. Karina has attended various art courses, including:

1. Entreveros International Seminar, Making the fabric, taught by the artist Alejandra Mizrahi, Noe Foundation,Kirchner Cultural Center, August 2023.
2. Interdisciplinary Workshop on Creative Processes Proyecto 8, directed by Francisca Kweitel. (2023)
3. Turn Up Lab, Leila Tschopp, (2023)
4. Art Clinic with the Artist Carolina Antoniadis, (2017-2022).
Different creative and linguistic stages have traversed the evolution of my works. I began to create abstractions from architectural floor plans, facades, and volumes immersed in the landscape. Then I started to fragment that architecture into geometries of bright colors that, while conversing with each other, also began to disintegrate, giving rise to more organic shapes.
Currently, this trace marks the beginning of a new dual cycle of, on one hand, settling what has been traversed, and on the other, a new and constant experimentation. There are echoes of certain geometric rigor, but I aim to capture a realm of almost imperceptible gestures that meld between the pigment, water, and the tool; something like traces under the pressure of the material that allows me to see lights, shadows, and vibrations of a single monochromatic color. The result is a subtle rhythm. A rhythm of traces with silences, pauses, and spaces.
The Textile Series:
Those spaces find their connection and are sutured with another tool: my needle. A needle that came to repair and unify again, to make way for a new code, aiming to be universal; something like a mysterious reading codex that, although indecipherable, allows us to recognize ourselves as part of something even greater.