Furnace – Art on Paper Archive is pleased to present:

Salt and Bone
Works by Claudia Kaatziza Cortínez
On view: Sept 20 – Nov 1, 2025


Salt and Bone is a solo exhibition by Claudia Kaatziza Cortínez that explores memory, transformation, and the marks left in built landscapes. Photographs of the salt-crystallized ruins of Villa Epecuén and the labyrinthine Chacarita Cemetery in Buenos Aires capture the textures and histories inscribed in architecture and nature, as well as the layered, physical experience of these spaces.

Printed as gum bichromate and toned cyanotypes on paper, linen, and silk, these analogue processes use pigments and light-sensitive chemistry to experiment with color, surface, and materiality. In the Epecuén series, salt-bleached trees rise alongside the skeletal remains of the once-flooded town, reimagined as vivid, spectral figures; in Chacarita, the complex stairwells and galleries convey the immersive, maze-like scale of the monumental cemetery. Across both sites, the works consider how landscapes and structures hold history, memory, and the body’s presence within them, exploring what is submerged and what endures.

Claudia Kaatziza Cortínez is an Argentine/American artist based in New York. She transforms landscapes, surfaces, and texts into material explorations of memory and identity through photography, printmaking, and installation.

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Claudia Kaatziza Cortínez is an Argentine/American visual artist based in New York. She holds a BFA from RISD and an MFA from Yale. Her work often begins with the camera as a drawing tool, exploring cities and landscapes for surfaces, patterns, and textures that she transforms in the studio. Central to her practice is experimentation with materials like paper pulp and light-sensitive chemistry to create photograms, rubbings, and architectural casts that evoke past or imagined landscapes. These processes merge photography, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture, often incorporating text from her father’s poetry and collaborations with her niece, also a poet. She also creates large-scale installations replicating the scale of a site, weaving personal, familial, and location-specific narratives to explore how objects and textures communicate identity and memory.

Recent awards and residencies include the Yale Norfolk Teaching Fellowship, Silver Art Projects Residency, Rema Hort Mann Grant, Center for Book Arts Residency, LES Printshop Residency, and LMCC Community Engagement Grant. She is currently a printmaking fellow at The Manhattan Graphic Center at Powerhouse Arts in Brooklyn. 

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