FLORENCIA SADIR (1991) grew up in Cafayate, Salta, and studied at the Faculty of Arts of the National University of Tucumán, Argentina. She participated in the study program at the Flora Ars + Natura School in Bogotá, Colombia (2019), completed the Artists Programme at the Torcuato Di Tella University in Buenos Aires (2020-21), participated in the FAARA residency at the Ama Amoedo Foundation in José Ignacio, Uruguay (2023), and in 2025, she will participate in the Pivô Arte Pesquisa residency in São Paulo.

Some of her notable exhibitions include Todavía las cosas hacían sombra, Museum of Contemporary Art of Salta (2021); Still Alive, Aichi Triennale, Tokoname, Japan (2022); and Florencia Sadir: Ofrenda al sol, Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires (2022). Her works are part of the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires, the Museum of Modern Art in Bogotá, and private collections in Latin America.

Florencia Sadir’s work stems from a keen and sensitive view of the territory, where ancestral knowledge intersects with political, poetic, and situated thinking. Through installations, sculptures and drawings, her work highlights the ways in which natural materials are transformed by ancestral technologies in an effort to restore the wounded memory of the world and overcome human centrality, which silences other presences. The sun, wind, water, smoke ,and fire are fundamental elements in her creative process, a set of subtle forces that fluctuate between abstraction and tenderness, navigating through colonial violence, precariousness, and resistance.

Field of Tension: Becoming of the Tietê (2025) was created through the research developed by the artist during her residency at Pivô, which focused on the Tietê River and its particular “reverse” flow, which traverses the interior of Brazil and empties into the Paraná River.
Two bodies of water from the same river remain contained within a glass structure. On one side, the source; on the other, the polluted stretch. Between them, an invisible boundary maintains the difference and the tension of coming together.

The piece observes the river’s becoming: its constant transformation, its impossibility of remaining the same. As in the Heraclitean image, the flow never repeats: the water changes, the territory changes, and the observer changes too.

Equilibrium is only a pause. The river continues.