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About
Agustín Sirai (La Plata, 1978) is a visual artist and professor. His work is primarily developed through painting, within a sustained practice that engages with the tradition of pictorial genres from a contemporary perspective.
He has held solo exhibitions at ARTHAUS Central (2025), Miranda Bosch (2021), Centro de Arte UNLP (2018), and Praxis Gallery (New York, 2015), among other venues. He received the UADE Visual Arts Grant in 2025, as well as the 1st and 2nd National Painting Awards from the Central Bank of Argentina (2011 and 2021).
Infinite Landscape
Infinite Landscape is a series of paintings that explores the idea of continuity and expansion of the landscape beyond the limits of the canvas. The images are constructed through fragments, repetitions, and variations, giving rise to territories with no fixed horizon or stable point of view.
The landscape appears as an open structure, in constant construction, where observation, pictorial tradition, and invention coexist. The series unfolds through paintings and a video work that proposes a continuous movement across these fragments.
Inventories
Inventories brings together a series of paintings constructed as visual lists: objects and figures arranged within a single field, where detail, variation, and accumulation function as structure. These works shift traditional genres—still life and portrait—toward a logic of a pictorial archive.
Portraits
Portraits brings together works that take the genre as a point of departure, shifting it toward a logic of the archive: figures arranged within a single field, tensions between the individual and the collective, and a reading in which accumulation functions as structure.
The Return of the National Being
The Return of the National Being is a pictorial work that brings together a broad set of recognizable figures from Argentine history, politics, culture, and the media, organized as an inventory of representations.
Portraiture ceases to function as an individual image and becomes a collective structure, where identities accumulate, repeat, and generate tension within a single field.
The work is not presented as a closed archive, but rather as a provisional way of ordering a national imaginary in permanent dispute.
Interiors
Interiors is a series focused on the representation of workspaces and domestic environments that function simultaneously as narrative scenes and reflective structures. Studios, rooms, and enclosed settings appear as places where painting reflects upon itself: the painting within the painting, the tools of making, the repetition of motifs, and the suspension of a precise temporality.
Rather than describing a habitable space, these images construct a mental interior, where the act of painting and its material conditions become the true subject.
Islands
Islands brings together a series of paintings produced between 2006 and 2015 that explore the construction of autonomous scenes organized around enclosed territories. Each island functions as a self-contained space with its own rules, where narrative elements, precarious architectures, and suspended situations coexist.
Although they do not constitute a closed series, these works anticipate concerns that run through later projects, particularly in relation to space, accumulation, and the organization of the pictorial field.