Sofia Bohtlingk (Buenos Aires, 1976) explores the poetics of painting through performative actions; reflections on geometry; and references to the body. Her works record traces of actions, choreographies of rhythmic gestures or the residues of the materials during the working process. By thematizing both painting and the body, the passage of time becomes a central element. In this sense, wrinkles and roughness function as traces the works’ construction process, but also point out the traces that time digs in the skin, generating a metaphorical equivalence between the outer layer of the body and the support of the painting. Lucrecia Palacios notes that some of her pieces leave apparently unfinished areas on the canvas in view, “as if they were not trying to build an image, but to show the register of the rough contact between the brush and the support”.

In 2024 she is presenting a solo exhibition of works on paper at the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires. Among numerous group shows, she has participated in Cuerpos Blandos, a at the Museum of Modern Art (2019); in Sacarse el sombrero para saludar at Proa 21, and Dixit curated by Sarah Demeuse and Javier Villa (2017). In 2016 she participated in Las decisiones del tacto, one of the exhibitions that encompassed “En el ejercicio de las cosas” within the framework of Argentina Plataforma ARCO, curated by Sonia Becce and Mariano Mayer, Madrid (2017) and in the XIX Premio Fundación Klemm a las Artes Visuales.