Lucía Scarselletta
My practice investigates textile techniques as material technologies shaped by migration and extractive economies. My current research centres on gaucho braiding, a traditional rawhide craft formed by Indigenous and transnational lineages, and historically embedded within the infrastructures of Argentina’s agro-export economy.
Working across sculpture, installation, writing and film, I repurpose discarded materials, including leather garments and industrial textiles such as scaffold cloth, to examine how craft practices carry layered histories of cultural transmission and labour. My work reconsiders objects and techniques tied to systems of control, exploring how they might be reoriented towards new forms of relation and spatial encounter.
Lived Experience
I studied Fashion Design at the Buenos Aires University (FADU-UBA), Costume Design and Characterisation at the San Martín Cultural Center (CCGSM) and at the Colón Theatre Institute in Argentina. I'm part of the Conditions Online Programme 2024-6 and completed residencies at Fabra i Coats and MACBA (both in Barcelona) among others. In 2024 I was commissioned by Turf Projects for The Forever Temporary duo exhibition. As researcher, I lectured at Jan Van Eyck Akademie (Maastricht) and EINA University (Barcelona). In London I created Diario Textil, a community weaving project running at the Latin American House in London.
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Lucía Scarselletta
b. Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina. Based in London.
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EDUCATION:
Fashion Design. Buenos Aires National University (FADU-UBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2024/26 - Conditions Online Programme. London, England.
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RESIDENCIES:
2025 - Get it done x Bow Arts. London, England.
2025 - Research and Documentation Centre. MACBA, Barcelona, Spain.
2024 - Fabra i Coats. Barcelona, Spain.
2021 - R.A.R.O. Barcelona, Spain.
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EXHIBITIONS:
2026- Monstrous Carbuncle - Group show. Hypha Studios n.1 Poultry, Gallery 3, London, UK.
2026 - Alhaja. Solo show. Outhouse Gallery, London, UK.
2025 - Holding Patterns. Group show. Deptford X. London, England.
2025 - The white cloth. Reading performance and participation in Orla Carolin’s book presentation, Taking air. Lewisham Arthouse. London, England.
2025 - Pa i fotocòpies. Group show. Fabra i coats. Barcelona, Spain.
2024 - The forever temporary. Duo show, Turf projects, London, England.
2024 - Solastalgia. Group show, Turf Projects, London, England.
2021 - R.A.R.O. Group show. Espai Souvenir, Barcelona, Spain.
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PUBLICATIONS:
2025 - Trenzado Gaucho: resiliencia sustentabilidad y cosmovisión. Post (s) journal Vol. 12, Constituciones. Edited by Max Hinderer Cruz. Published by Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador.
2025 - Taking air. Edited and Published by Orla Carolin, London, UK.
2025 - Rights and dreams - Flat to rent. Self Published, London, UK.
2024 - Trenzado Gaucho: resiliencia sustentabilidad y cosmovisión, Intra Acción, EINA, Barcelona, Spain.
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LECTURES:
2025 - Regenerate! Symposium. Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht Centre for Arts and Culture, Conservation and Heritage (MACCH), Maastricht, Netherlands.
2025 - RCA x Turf Projects. In collaboration with Royal College of Art’s Arts and Humanities MFA, Turf Projects and Croydon Urban Room.
2024 - Intra-Action Symposium. EINA University, Barcelona, Spain.2023 - Technopolitics from the Anthropocene. Algorithms, massive data and art as a way of living - Led by Flavia Costa, NINFA Cultura Visual, Argentina.
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GRANTS AND AWARDS:
2025 - Eaton Fund, London, UK.
2023 - a-n Artists bursary award, London, UK.
2023 - Research Fellowship by R.A.R.O. Barcelona + Uberbau House, São Paulo, Brazil.
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OTHER EDUCATION:
2022/2023 - Network Program, Mutability & Mutualism Vol II and Hydro-Futures / Memory Ecologies - Institute for Postnatural Studies in collaboration with Rhubaba and The Institute of Queer Ecology, Madrid, Spain.
2022 - Open Program, New Ecologies and XenoXenoXeno - Institute for Postnatural Studies, Madrid, Spain.
2022 - Tapestry Art - Led by Caron Penney, Morley College, London, England.
2022 - Queer theory - Centro Redes associated to CONICET (National Scientific Research Council), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2022 - Backstrap, Card loom and Nahua Gauze - Led by Loreto Millallén, Ad Llallín Mapuche Textile School, Santiago, Chile.
2012 - Theatre characterisation: Make up and Hair pieces. Colón Theatre Institute, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2011 - Experimental costume design: dramaturgy of costumes. Argentores (Argentine General Authors Society), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2009 - Makeup for Films and TV - Professional Training Centre at SICA (Argentine Film Industry Union), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2005 - Costume design for film, theatre and TV - CCGSM (General San Martín Cultural Centre), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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