Postconceptual artist. I studied Economics, and graduated in Communication Sciences at Universidad del Salvador (2002). I was trained in design at Central Saint Martins, London, and jewelry at L'Ecole Van Cleef & Arpels, Paris. I participated in numerous courses in different fields, such as Medical Neurosciences at Duke University (2020). In 2023, I completed a postgraduate course in Contemporary Art Technologies at the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras of the Universidad de Buenos Aires. Since 2012, I have been working on interdisciplinary projects in the crossroads of art, biology, technology and communications, within the framework of my studio Isabel Englebert Studio.
In 2023, I was invited as a speaker to present my series "J. Doe, an abstract identity" in the “Biohack the planet” Conference in Austin, Texas. I developed the limited edition multiple “Amateur Gods”, which is part of the series, specially for The Bass Museum in Miami. "J. Doe, an abstract identity" has been an international finalist for Bienal Sur 2023. At Miami Art Week 2022, I led a project together with Pinta Miami and Ella Fontanals Cisneros that brought the first traditional art fair and the first major collector to the Metaverse. I also participated as an artist and moderated a panel entitled "Traditional art and the new virtual environment", alongside speakers such as the director of Pinta Miami, the leadership of CIFO and the director of Decentraland. In 2021, sponsored by the European Cultural Center, MCAD and FIU, I participated in Miami Art Week, exhibiting a large format sculpture and an NFT in the IlluMia Festival, which was screened in Downtown Miami’s public space. I have been named Decentraland’s Museum District Ambassador (2021), an entitlement that has enabled me to work with virtuality and NFTs in depth. My NFT “Wannabe Porvenir” is currently exhibited at the Museum District, constituting part of the Museum’s collection. My work has been selected as a finalist for the Visual Arts Itaú Prize (2021). I exhibited at Diderot Art Gallery, Buenos Aires (2020), and at Praxis Gallery, Buenos Aires (2019). My sculptural series have been exhibited at the Design & Art Center at the Patagonia Foundation, Buenos Aires (2019), where my piece “Mies” is part of the Foundation’s permanent exhibition, and at Casa FOA, Buenos Aires (2018). My work has been portrayed in numerous magazines, as well as my research and thoughts, which have been published in the art magazine “Arte al Día”. I have been selected by Forbes as one of the “35 under 35”. I am currently working on project accompaniment and coaching with curator Laura Batkis and artist Julián Camargo.
In the last year, I have been conducting joint research with MIT, in cooperation with the EvLab Language Lab. I have collaborated with the Lab team, exchanging experiences and knowledge, and conducting field tests related to language and neuroscience.
My interest is built around identity, the collective and the anonymous. I raise the question of the self-construction of the self, in these times of technological advances and groundbreaking genetic engineering, and the never more current concept of hyperreality. With a surrealist gaze, I bring together an exploration of the unknown, glimpsing possible futures and awakening the spectator's restlessness.
Having been trained in a wide range of disciplines, I extrapolate and juxtapose different ideas and techniques from apparently disconnected fields, breeding a unique worldview. Morphologies and materials vary until the adequate adjudication of the materiality to the concept and its communication is achieved. My pieces combine neuroscience investigations, brain waves, genome maps, binary code, algorithms, sound engineering, interactive systems, virtuality and hyper-reality. The media I employ to express my ideas include sculpture, video, performance, installation, and even Artificial Intelligence and blockchain.
At the junction of disciplines, materials and media, I seek to build a language of my own, giving rise to reflections and abstract dialogues between artist and spectator, while innovating in the ways of representation and experimentation of works of art.
