Hilda Inés Zagaglia (Alta Gracia, Córdoba, 1950) is a visual artist and graduate with honours in Painting from the School of Arts of the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, 1984.
She has participated in several exhibitions, beginning in 1980 through the present. Highlights include exhibitions at the Museo de la Estancia Jesuítica de Alta Gracia; the Instituto Italiano de Cultura (Córdoba); the Museo Terry, located in Tilcara (Jujuy); La Recoleta (Buenos Aires); an exhibition in the foyer of the Auditorio Juan Victoria (San Juan); her participation in the Florence Biennale dell'Arte Contemporanea (Italy) and the Paris Triennale of Contemporary Art (France); and her shows at the Taipinquirí art gallery and the Casa Municipal de Culturas (Bolivia). She has received invitations to participate in numerous events and has shown her works in Latin America, the United States and Europe. Her visual arts career has expanded over 40 years, and some of her exhibitions have been declared of municipal interest in her home town and in the province of Córdoba. Zagaglia is the recipient of several awards including, in 2002, a recognition for painting from ARTEC (Association for the Promotion of the Arts) and members of the Académie de Beaux Arts, at the Triennale of Contemporary Art in Paris. She has been recognised twice by the Municipality of Alta Gracia, in 2005, as Woman of the Year for Cultural Activity, and in 2018, as Outstanding Artist of the Year.
She is an anti-GMO corn activist and has presented exhibitions and performed actions in defence of the native corn seed and its myths while denouncing the devastation of our lands. She is currently a member of Córdoba Ruta del Esclavo [The Slave Route of Córdoba], an interdisciplinary group in which she, as an artist, addresses the erasure of those who were brought to these lands from Africa. As part of that activism, she has held exhibitions and performances at several Jesuit estates in the province of Córdoba and interventions related to Afro culture and heritage. She has also founded and directs two collectives that develop performance and educational activities: the Colectivo 8 de noviembre María Remedios del Valle and the Colectivo La Negrada.
Art is like a journey that transports us from one place and time to another. It carries us forward with the aim of redeeming that which is silenced, of showing that which is indescribable, and of making visible that which is forgotten or absent. That is why, through my work, I value forgotten aspects of history, the country, myths and discourses on transcendence (Hilda Zagaglia).
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