1978, lives and works at Buenos Aires, Argentina

Florencia Rodriguez Giles explores the relationship between contemporary artistic practices and therapeutic procedures through means that include drawing, video, performance, and research into experimental pedagogical practices. Since 2018, she has had a project with Emilio Bianchic that explores the imaginative power of the underwater world. She holds a degree from the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes Prilidiano Pueyrredon and is a certified PADI diver. In 2006, she continued her training with Nicola Costantino. The following year, she attended the Diana Aisenberg art clinic, and between 2010 and 2011, she participated in the Kuitca Scholarship / Torcuato Di Tella University.

Her work has been supported by numerous grants, including from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fundación Antorchas of the Ministry of Culture of the Argentine Nation, and the Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP) in France. In 2016, she received the first Braque Muntref Prize, and in 2019, the first Federico Klemm Prize. She has also participated in residencies at Palm Heights Hotel (Cayman Islands, 2022); Le Magasin- Centre National d’Art Contemporain (Grenoble, France, 2017); Frac Lorraine (Metz, France, 2016); Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris, France, 2016-2017); Paradise Air (Japan, 2015); Arcus Studio Residency for Artists (Japan, 2014); and AIT- Arts Initiative Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan, 2009).

Among her individual performances and exhibitions, the following stand out: Symtomario (Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, 2022), Ronco Oceânico (Performance Biennial, 2019), Biodelica (Galería Ruth Benzacar, 2018); EsquizoPicnic (Museo Reina Sofía, Spain, 2018); Liminoid Session (Palais de Tokyo, France, 2016); Strabisme Internet (Galerie Bendana-Pinel, 2016); Hiperestesia (Muntref, 2016).

The therapeutic possibilities of artistic practice are part of her research fields. In this context, her work at the Clube de Artes e Lazer (La Plata, 2021-), GAYA (La Plata, 2019), INHA (Paris, 2019), EHPAD, Solexine, (G.E.M.) (Grenoble, 2017-18), the palliative care service for adults at the Legouest Hospital (Metz, 2016), the Luis Agote Juvenile Institute (Bs. As, 2014), and the Ricardo Gutierrez Children’s Hospital, Palliative Care Area (2010-2016) is worth highlighting.

She participated in Pivô Satélite 2023.

This project is a realization of the Secretaria Municipal de Cultura de São Paulo and Pivô Arte e Pesquisa, through the Programa Municipal de Apoio a Projetos Culturais PROMAC, established by Law n°15.948/2013.