Visual artist Agustina Battaglia Follow.Art Card

About me

My artistic practice stems from a sustained interest in nature’s cycles — its transformations and quiet rhythms — and in how these have been understood through scientific, spiritual, and cultural perspectives. I am drawn to moments where time exceeds the human scale, observing the landscape’s subtle gestures to reflect on our relationship with the environment, its political dimensions, and its role in shaping identity.
In the context of the climate crisis, I seek to rethink how art is made, focusing on sustainability in both materials and concepts. Influenced by Gilles Clément’s “Third Landscape” and experimentation with biomaterials derived from everyday waste, I create biodegradable works that engage the territory through subtle, low-impact gestures.
I work with what grows at the margins: weed remains, plants considered landscape waste, and nomadic species. Observing them requires slowing down, inhabiting different rhythms, kneeling, and looking from the ground. In these simple acts lies a poetic and critical possibility: rethinking the symbolic value of what has been discarded.
My practice exists between ecological awareness and a critical inquiry into identity. Through sculptures made from plant fragments — especially those labeled as weeds — I approach identity as mutable and relational, like ecosystems where hybridity and the peripheral play vital roles. Repetition and shifts in scale create perceptual changes, allowing the discarded to gain symbolic agency and question hierarchies between visible and invisible, central and marginal.
Between the ephemeral and the symbolic, and between vulnerability and politics, unfolds the poetics that guide my work: what decays can generate meaning; what is fragile can become resistance.