Rosana Schoijett is one of the main artists working with photography in her generation in Argentina. Since the ‘90s she has developed several series which have a strong conceptual approach as well as an exquisite formal resolution. In the past three years she has temporarily moved away from capturing photographic images in order to focus on making collages using photographs printed in vintage high quality books. For this purpose she searches second-hand bookstores to find these books, often devoted to images of art or nature, which are beautifully printed on velvety papers, and then builds laborious pieces overlapping cut-outs from the same page from these different copies of one published title. They are hand-sewn to create 3-D relief, and some times framed in hinged glass panels. As a photographer working in the digital age, she became interested in the book as fetish and in a method of production that deliberately ignores anything digital. She is also compelled to revisit the long standing tradition, from surrealism to neo-conceptualism, of women artists making collages.

Born in Buenos Aires in 1969, she studied photography and film. Her work has been shown at MALBA, Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires; Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires, National Museum of Fine Arts Bellas; Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires; Winzavod Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscú, URRS; Le 19 CRAC Centre Cultural Montpelliard, France; Centro Fotográfico Manuel Alvarez Bravo, México; Premio Braque; Solo Projects ARCOmadrid; among others. In 2024 she was commisioned a project to be exhibited at MALBA Puertos, a recently inagurated branch of one of Argentina’s main museums.