Rosario Arostegui

As Deleuze and Guattari describe, rhizomes are multiplicities, lines, strata, segmentations, vanishing lines, and intensities; they are organs that grow indefinitely.

Using recycled materials, particularly analogue film and negatives, this series explores rhizomatic forms and shadows, reflecting diversity, openness and new paths of non-linear thinking.

In the series Labyrinths, the artist reconfigures recycled analog materials—once central to communication and daily life but now largely displaced by digital technology. Through this transformation, she explores how these shifts have altered the way we connect, live, and form community.

She creates pieces which, by the use of light, reflect a shadow of hidden stories and secrets, just a glim of a private and personal world.

Based on unique analog photograms and prints, the series explores the intimate and direct relationship between Matter and Energy—their mutual influence, transformation, and effect on one another.

Each piece embodies one of the four elements: Water, Earth, Air, and Fire.

Following and extending the series Nets of Life, the series Cosmos presents three-dimensional objects created from recycled prints.

These works seek to recreate forms found in the cosmos—an unknown and vast region of nature, a silent and dark space already touched by humanity. They evoke the poetry and imagination that humans have associated with the cosmos throughout history.

In 2017, Rosario Aróstegui was invited to participate in the project “Co-Habited Universes”. The project involved interventions on Le Corbusier’s architecture across three continents—Europe, America, and Asia—carried out by artist Alejandro Masseillot and documented through photography by three Argentine artists.

Rosario Aróstegui photographed Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp, France; Silvina Babich captured Casa Curutchet in La Plata, Argentina; and Guillermo Marro documented the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo, Japan.

The installation Lazos de la Infancia – Childhood Bonds was the artist’s tribute to the Argentine poet, singer, and composer María Elena Walsh (MEW) at the exhibition Efemérides II, held at Centro Cultural Borges in Buenos Aires for International Women’s Day in 2016.

MEW’s narrative and social sensitivity, which earned her national recognition in Argentina, inspired this work. She skillfully uses everyday elements to express her love for childhood while denouncing poverty, injustice, and rootlessness.

The installation incorporates recycled LPs painted in various colors, alongside papier-mâché figures and medallions featuring prints of MEW´s texts.