About
Florencia Montefalcone
Born Buenos Aires, Argentina · Based in Los Angeles, California
Florencia Montefalcone is an Argentine multidisciplinary artist whose practice moves between textile, wearable sculpture, painting, photography, performance, installation and participatory work.
Her work examines the body, vulnerability, identity, desire and transformation — the distance between how a body is seen and how it is lived. Hand-painted silk is her primary material: painted slowly, then cut and rebuilt into objects that can be worn, carried and performed.
Participation is structural rather than decorative. Audiences are frequently invited to write, dye, paint or wear, so that the work continues to be made in public and the exhibition becomes a site of collective transformation.
Her projects have been presented at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, Minnesota Street Project, SOMArts and SUDESTADA in Brooklyn, where she held her first solo exhibition, Why Are We So Afraid?, in 2024. Her current body of work, Love Me Boots, is being developed toward an immersive exhibition.
Artist statement
I paint silk as a way of thinking. Over years, yards of fabric become records of self-reflection, pregnancy, motherhood, desire, vulnerability, and the changing body. I then cut the paintings apart and reconstruct them into wearable sculptures.
I make work for the body because wearing something can create a different kind of encounter. A piece can expose something personal, provoke a conversation with a stranger, and turn vulnerability into connection.
My work moves between the private and the public, transforming thought into image, image into object, and personal experience into shared experience.
Archive
Florencia throughout the years
Images coming soon
A personal archive of moments, people, and places that have shaped the practice.