Irene Leonor Accarini is a psychoanalyst and visual artist. Her practice unfolds between text and object, embroidery and collage, with an approach that weaves together symbolic thought and materiality. Through the use of textiles, installations, and visual poetry, she explores the body, time, and the aesthetic experience as ways of inhabiting.
In her recent works, Accarini revisits motifs by designer and activist William Morris —such as The Strawberry Thief and The Angel Holding the Sun— to reframe them through a contemporary lens. This affiliation is not merely decorative, but projective: her birds and figures emerge incomplete, suspended within textile settings that suggest a nest, a threshold, a space where art becomes an act of care. Each stitch is an intimate gesture, a bodily decision that intertwines memory, the present moment, and the desire for the future.
Accarini conceives the work of art as an event: a border point between the visible world and the viewer’s inner life. In the face of the increasing artificiality of our surroundings, her work proposes an attentive pause —an opportunity for an encounter with what is beautiful, useful, and good.
She has exhibited in venues such as the Centro Cultural Recoleta, Centro Cultural Borges, Museo de la Mujer, Arte x Arte, EGGO, Expotrastiendas, Galería Thames, Museo MUBATA (Tres Arroyos), and the Law School of the University of Buenos Aires. She participated in Art Basel Cities Buenos Aires and in projects by CAAT, AAVRA, and CAAC. Internationally, she has taken part in exhibitions and residencies in Berlin, Luxembourg, Rotterdam, Canada, the Netherlands, and the 55th Venice Biennale (Tibet Pavilion).
She is the author of Invenciones: Arte y Psicoanálisis (Psicolibro) and Los trastornos de la cultura (Eduntref), where she reflects on the connections between creation, language, and subjectivity.
