Bianca Argimón

Franco-Spanish artist Bianca Argimón (*1988) reflects on the condition of contemporary society through her intermedial practice, approaching it with ironic distance and subtly subversive humor. Her meticulously composed paintings, drawings, installations, and objects draw on art history, literature, and history, creating a visual field in which personal experience intertwines with collective memory and cultural archetypes. 

In her work, time and space are destabilized: biblical figures encounter medieval characters, a statue of Buddha enters into dialogue with King Kong and other icons of popular culture. This layering of seemingly disparate motifs produces a complex image of the present, where high and low, sacred and profane, historical and pop-cultural elements exist in mutual tension. The density and multilayered narrative of her compositions evoke the traditions of Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel the Elder, developing visual structures that balance on the threshold between grotesque exaggeration and critical reflection. 

Argimón also engages with specific historical events and mechanisms of power, through which she addresses questions of control, collective manipulation, and freedom of expression. Her work thus functions not merely as an allegorical image of the present, but as a space in which historical experience and current social tensions meet in critical dialogue. 

Bianca Argimón lives and works in Paris. She studied at the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs and the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, as well as at the Rhode Island School of Design. Her work has been presented, among others, at the ISCP in New York, MAC VAL, Fondation Hermès, and Palais de Tokyo.