Amparo Viau’s work combines gestural intensity, eroticism, and mythical narrative through large-scale drawings and installations. Using pastels and chalk on paper, and also working on perforated wood, Viau constructs scenes in which bodies, hybrid figures, and archetypal symbols intertwine in narratives that address desire, memory, and identity from a deeply Latin American perspective.

Her images offer a carnal odyssey, an emotional and political map traversed by duality, love and hate, surrealism and the dreamlike. There are always kisses, encounters, gestures that verge on the romantic and the tragic. Bodies look at one another, mingle, and merge in an overflowing sensuality, as if the paper itself were not enough to contain them.

Viau’s works tell stories: personal, communal, and cultural experiences that inhabit the artist at every moment. They function as metaphors of time and of the human condition, where past, present, and future overlap in a montage of disparate temporalities that connect and address one another.

Her practice unfolds as an exercise in poetic and critical revision of the collective body, proposing new mythologies in which the intimate and the political intersect. In this context, her sculptural work in wood appears as a natural extension of drawing: the lines acquire volume, the bodies rise from the paper and assert themselves in space, evoking the intensity of the live model and the shared gesture.

Amparo Viau graduated in Visual Arts from the Universidad Nacional de Arte (UNA) in Buenos Aires in 2012. She later obtained a degree in Film Directing in 2017 from CIEVYC – Centro de Investigación y Experimentación en Video y Cine in Buenos Aires.