Rosa Amarilla develops a body of work in which objects become vessels of memory and affect. Centered on chairs and armchairs, her compositions approach these elements as bodies marked by time, history, and lived experience. Within her images, the domestic emerges as a sensitive territory where absence and presence coexist: human figures are not depicted, yet everything points back to them. Through these forms, she explores the intersections of identity, inheritance, and emotion.
Born in Ingeniero Pablo Nogués in 2000, Amarilla trained as a Visual Arts teacher at the Universidad Nacional de las Artes, where she continues her undergraduate studies with a focus on painting and printmaking. Her practice is shaped both by academic training and a deeply autobiographical dimension, closely tied to her father’s work as an upholsterer and to a family tradition of craftsmanship. This intersection between art and manual labor forms the conceptual and material core of her work.
Her production unfolds through an ongoing exploration of techniques and media, including painting, printmaking, and printed art. Using materials drawn from her family’s workshop—fabrics, sandpaper, plastics—she creates works that not only depict objects but physically embed their histories. In her series, chairs are dismantled, fragmented, and reassembled, operating as devices to reflect on emotional processes. The presence of botanical elements introduces a cyclical dimension, where nature and object intertwine, evoking transformation, decay, and renewal.
She has participated in exhibitions and programs such as the Manuel Belgrano National Salon and the Universidad Nacional de las Artes Art Festival, as well as in institutional spaces and local fairs. Alongside her artistic practice, she develops independent publishing projects such as Petricor, combining printmaking, photography, and visual poetry. Amarilla’s work proposes a layered understanding of intimacy, where material, familial, and emotional traces converge through everyday objects as forms of persistence and narrative.
