López, Francisca

López, Francisca

She was born in Buenos Aires in 1974. Between 1977 and 1984, she lived in Caracas, a city where her parents, artists dedicated to opera and theater, went into exile. In 2005, she settled for five years in Barcelona and later in Berlin until 2013. She currently lives and works in Buenos Aires.

She attended the Imagen e Idea Fotográfica workshops by Alberto Goldenstein at the Ricardo Rojas Cultural Center (Buenos Aires, 1996), the Continuous Training Plan for Visual Artists at AAVC-Hangar (Barcelona, 2006 and 2009), the Artist Program at the Torcuato Di Tella University (Buenos Aires, 2013), and the first Villa Panadería-Dorada Artist Residency by Celina Jure and Martín Mele at Weltkunstzimmer (Düsseldorf, 2016).

Since 1998, her photographic work and artistic research have focused closely on Hungarian-born photographer Bandi Binder, with whom she maintained a deep friendship during the last years of his life.

Different poetic-conceptual series have gradually formed a single essay over time. The photography speaks for itself, and a new sense of color emerges by evoking certain period-specific color ranges. This results in a pictorial and abstract work with an archival and documentary background.

Her commitment to the dissemination and preservation of Binder's legacy in collaboration with his widow, American painter Sally Dietrich, is also significant.