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Victoria Colmegna (b. 1986, Argentina) explores artifice, kitsch, fraught psyches, and the materiality of memory through an art practice unbounded by any single medium. Influenced by histories, psychoanalysis, and astrology, she approaches artmaking as a process of classification and analysis—examining how traits, behaviors, and roles are constructed and repeated. Colmegna weaves together watercolors, readymades, textiles, and tools of intervention, both clinical and chemical, which act like miniature psychoanalytic chambers, exposing unconscious urges.
Central to Colmegna’s practice is her ongoing fascination with the therapeutic approaches of psychoanalyst Melanie Klein. Set against the turbulent backdrop of 1940s Britain, Klein developed her “play technique,” from which the exhibition takes its name, as a way to access children’s subconscious thoughts and fantasies. Klein believed that through the symbolic language of play, children could most successfully communicate their internal…
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Victoria Colmegna (b. 1986, Argentina) explores artifice, kitsch, fraught psyches, and the materiality of memory through an art practice unbounded by any single medium. Influenced by histories, psychoanalysis, and astrology, she approaches artmaking as a process of classification and analysis—examining how traits, behaviors, and roles are constructed and repeated. Colmegna weaves together watercolors, readymades, textiles, and tools of intervention, both clinical and chemical, which act like miniature psychoanalytic chambers, exposing unconscious urges.
Central to Colmegna’s practice is her ongoing fascination with the therapeutic approaches of psychoanalyst Melanie Klein. Set against the turbulent backdrop of 1940s Britain, Klein developed her “play technique,” from which the exhibition takes its name, as a way to access children’s subconscious thoughts and fantasies. Klein believed that through the symbolic language of play, children could most successfully communicate their internal…
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