Romina Juárez was born in Buenos Aires in 1993. Her development as an artist emerged from a practical, almost gestural need. She began by painting abstract canvases charged with materiality and shaped by an interest in stains and the traces left by the creative process—elements that remain central to her practice today.
Her pictorial universe engages in a dialogue with Expressionism. Her work in the field of radiology brings her into contact with a reality populated by “unprotected” bodies: exposed, vulnerable, and awaiting the care of another person. Romina approaches these images as a curious yet perceptive observer. In them, she finds her main source of inspiration for expressing a form of anguish, perhaps existential, connected to fragility and deterioration. “My mother is in these works,” the artist explains. She began painting after losing her.
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Yet her work contains far more than this anguish. Many of her figures seem to convey a sense of calm, a silent state of waiting, and a trust in the care of another person. They look back at us without posing, as though they had been secretly captured in their most intimate moments, in postures that suggest surrender, vulnerability, or faith.
Other works evoke a more aggressive and visceral encounter, connected to blood and death. Romina explains that she uses the brush as though she were “stabbing” the canvas, in a form of emotional release that ultimately becomes the portrait of someone else.
She has exhibited with El Cable, an experience through which she discovered the possibilities and challenges of live painting. Eight years ago, she began developing her technique professionally at Milagros Torreblanca’s studio, where she found the tools needed to materialize the works that had already taken shape in her imagination.
