Inés O’Farrell, born in the city of Buenos Aires, graduated from the National School of Fine Arts Prilidiano Pueyrredón.
She attended Rosa Frei’s workshop, Marcia Schvartz’s workshop and currently attends Oscar Cesar Mara’s Psychology of Form workshop.
Interview
What is art for you?
It is a manifestation and vital need of the human soul.
How did you approach art?
I have always incorporated drawing and painting into my life. It was my refuge in the solitude of my childhood. In the search for a place to study, I entered the Ernesto de la Carcova School of Fine Arts for the first time, I was paralyzed when I saw a copy of David, and I felt that this was my world.
What things inspire you?
The feminine world, gender violence, the pain that tears and the loneliness of my inner world.
What themes are recurrent in your work?
The feminine soul, its corners, its deep and dark hollows, its exuberance, its blood, the wet and soft.
How is your production process?
I work in my home-workshop and it is based on the psychology of form school of Juan Batlle Planas. The creative process is based on traces that combine acts of the unconscious with the search for figurative expressions.
How would you define your work in terms of tradition, style, school or current?
Figurative, alternating with realistic expressions framed in a lyrical and poetic universe, with powerful images that dialogue with a deep dreamlike and fantastic world.
What are your artistic references?
Egon Schiele and Oscar Cesar Mara.
What artists interest you from previous and later generations?
Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Goya, Francis Bacon, Jenny Saville, Zimou Tan, Roger Mantegani, Marlene Dumas, Adrian Ghenie, Gabriela Bodin, Craig Hanna, Carlos Alonso and Marcia Schvartz.
What would you like your art to bring to the world (or to those who observe it)?
Sensitivity.