Smooth appearances, deceptive sweetness: Bianca Argimón’s works occupy that tipping point where beauty wavers and, without a raised voice, reveals the madness of our time.
— Antoine Py & Camille Frasca
Smooth appearances, deceptive softness: Bianca Argimón’s works occupy that tipping point where beauty falters and quietly reveals the madness of our time. She deploys a vocabulary as free as it is precise—drawing, painting, sculpture, installation—to orchestrate a miniature theatre where the grotesque constantly flirts with grace.
The artist explores a blurred temporality, somewhere between ancient fresco and tempera painting. There is something timeless in her vignettes, a gently abrasive tenderness that recalls Bosch or Brueghel. For over ten years, she has handled our small contemporary dramas with sharp irony, weaving them into disenchanted compositions that are at once humorous and unsettling.
Within this universe, symbols collide: cold machines with frozen smiles, absurd anthropomorphic figures, offbeat animals observing the world with an almost philosophical indifference, a blind Pinocchio guided solely by the weight of his nose… Humour, ever-present, never erases the underlying unease. On the contrary, it serves as its discreet revealer.
Bianca Argimón’s work could be mistaken for that of a whistleblower. It is far more than that: a bittersweet mirror held up to our grotesque reality. She draws us into a world where madness brushes against the real, sharply exposing the uncertain boundary between lucidity and collective insanity. What she offers us is a silent insolence, an invitation to quiet revolt, a necessary anger in the face of our guilty complacency.
What, then, is to be done? Laugh once more, a final time, before everything dissolves into falsehood and illusion. Or question ourselves? That has become painful. For soon we may wander like the tiny figures in her works, trapped in our banal fears, paralyzed. One need only look at the figures who dominate our era to understand what our silence permits. Their presence is the blatant proof of our collective surrender. Let us rise up, so as not to hum in unison the downfall of our world.
— Antoine Py & Camille Frasca
Bianca Argimón graduated from the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD) and the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris.
Among her many institutional exhibitions are presentations at MAC VAL, the Fondation Hermès, the Palais de Tokyo, and more recently the Fondation EDF and Frac Sud. She has also taken part in significant residencies, including the Casa de Velázquez, the Cité internationale des arts in Paris, and the ISCP in New York in 2024.