Ana Won

San Miguel de Tucumán, 1989

Ana Won’s works vertiginously combine divergent materialities, languages, and traditions to bring forth the unknown. Won forms part of an extensive genealogy of artists who understands its practice as having all the transformative power of magic and alchemy. To create her works, she engages in deep meditation or even goes into a trance. Since the time she was young, Ana has imbued Catholic teachings as well as the Native culture of the Indigenous peoples of northeastern Argentina, where she lives and works. Those influence are at play when she gives shape to new entities that, according to the artist, are rich in mystical energy.