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Argentine artist

Amalia Pica (born in Neuquén, Argentina) is a London-based Argentine artist who explores metaphor, communication, and civic participation through sculptures, installations, photographs, projections, live performances, and drawings.^[1] Pica currently works and lives in London.^[2]

Early life and education

Pica was born in Neuquén, Argentina, in She earned a BA from the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes Prilidiano Pueyrredón in Buenos Aires in From to , she held an artist residency at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kusten.^[3][4]

Influences and work

Pica was born in the late s during the Dirty War, a period of state terrorism in Argentina.

In light of this fact, Pica's work raises questions about the role of government, language and communication, and human connections. Much of her work explores fundamental issues of communication, such as the acts of delivering and receiving messages (verbal or nonverb