Artist’s Statement:
“That afternoon was as blue as an opaline glass” is the second series in which Carolina Baldomá explores the emotional universe of girls undergoing the metamorphosis of adolescence, a permeable zone where uncertainty and contradictions intertwine.
Something magical and enigmatic emerges in these fragile and ethereal young women, who at the same time appear strong and empowered in their deep connection with nature which serves as both their refuge and a source of wisdom.
A latent synchronicity arises, a parallel between the vital cycles of women and those of nature. Both these girls in body and soul, and the natural landscape experience processes of transformation.
The artist conveys this transformation through the materiality of her work to foster this concept. Thus, the transmutation of matter in her pieces becomes a metaphor for the transformation of these young women and their nature. She combines images created with different photographic media and focuses on alchemical experimentation to construct imaginary inner landscapes. One of the techniques she uses is experimental cyanotype, altering its traditional chemical and physical processes.
She produces atmospheric works, sometimes pictorial, other abstract, in a gesture that seeks to blur images and poetically retrace them. In this way, the artist immerses us in the intimate worlds of these young women, revealing their dreams and contradictions, and invites us to reflect on the vital cycles of women and their synchronous connection with nature.
Science and art merge, expanding boundaries, much like the ancient alchemists once did. Through an endless range of blue tones, we delve into the intimate universes of these adolsescents, who reveal glimpses of their dreams and contradictions. Alchemy works its magic, mirroring body and soul, negative and positive, reality and fiction.
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“Esa tarde era azul como una copa de opalina” es la segunda serie en que Carolina Baldomá indaga sobre el universo emocional de niñas que comienzan a atravesar la metamorfosis de la adolescencia, esa zona permeable donde lo incierto y las contradicciones se entrelazan.
Algo mágico y enigmático se vislumbra en estas jóvenes frágiles y etéreas y a la vez fuertes y empoderadas en su profunda conexión con la naturaleza, que es a la vez su refugio y fuente de sabiduría.
Hay una sincronicidad latente, un paralelismo entre los ciclos vitales femeninos y los de la naturaleza. Ambos, tanto estas mujeres en cuerpo y alma, como el paisaje natural, atraviesan procesos de cambio.
La artista da cuenta de este proceso a través de la materialidad de su obra que opera para potenciar este concepto. Así, la transmutación de la materia que se produce en su obra se convierte en metáfora de la trasformación de estas jóvenes y su naturaleza. Combina imágenes realizadas con distintos medios fotográficos y se centra en la experimentación alquímica para construir paisajes interiores imaginarios. Una de las técnicas que utiliza es la cianotipia que trabaja de manera experimental, alterando su procedimiento químico y físico tradicional.
Produce obras climáticas, entre pictóricas en algunos a casos y abstracciones en otros, en un gesto que busca desdibujar las imágenes y volver a trazarlas poéticamente. De esta manera, la artista nos adentra en los universos íntimos de estas jóvenes que dejan entrever sus sueños y contrariedades y nos invita a reflexionar en torno a los ciclos vitales de las mujeres y la conexión sincrónica con la naturaleza.
Ciencia y arte se fusionan expandiendo fronteras, tal como lo hicieran los antiguos alquimistas. A través de un sinfín de tonos azules nos adentramos en los universos íntimos de estas jóvenes que dejan entrever sus sueños y contradicciones. La alquimia hace su magia espejando cuerpo y alma, negativo y positivo, realidad y ficción.
Carolina Baldomá is an artist specialized in photography who lives and produces her work immersed in her natural environment, in the Argentinian Pampas.
She is engaged in long-term experimental photography projects, and her research explores the relationship between nature and the human being, emphasizing the concepts of coexistence and synchronicity between them. In recent years, her projects have centered on alchemical experimentation with different photographic mediums, revisiting the history of photography in an empirical way. In her practice, nature is poetically imprinted both in the content and in the medium, becoming both object and subject in the artwork.
Her photographs combine dreamlike and sometimes surreal landscapes with experimental portraits of women in metamorphosis, revealing the deep connection between the cycles of human nature—particularly those of women—and the rhythms of the natural world.
In 2023 she was preselected for the Fresh contest by Klompching Gallery in New York and she was a finalist for the Lens School of Madrid Grant. She has received mentions in international competitions such as Emerging Talents Awards 2024 and 2023, Critics Choice 2024, 2023, and 2022, and Portrait Awards 2023 by Lensculture. In 2025, her work was selected for the online exhibition Expanded Cyanotypes: New Directions in Cyanotype Making at the Griffin Museum of Photography in New England, USA.
She has held various solo exhibitions in Argentina and Uruguay and has participated in group shows in New York, Paris, Athens, Berlin, Vermont, and Melbourne. Her work is part of photobooks and art collections, and she has been published in specialized photography media such as Arte On Line, Femgrafía (Mexico), Fotógrafas en el Mundo, and Fotoargenta.
She pursued a Master’s degree in Contemporary Art Curation at ESEADE in Argentina and is currently working on a thesis about 19th-century women who made significant contributions to photographic techniques, science and art.
