Born in 1980. She lives and works in Buenos Aires (Argentina).
Ad Minoliti is a graduate of the National Academy of Fine Arts of Argentina. Since her beginnings, she has developed an abstract painting work that questions notions of gender and power through reappropriations and transversal readings of art history, the history of social sciences and science. It proceeds by collages of ideas, by amalgamating elements from different cultural spheres, seeking to break the conventions and stereotypes related to the dominant representations in our western capitalist world. Her sources of inspiration are many: design, architecture, cartoons, science fiction, toys and the world of childhood.
Ad Minoliti is involved in the defence of minorities, respect for cultural rights and access to culture. As a painter, and in a desire to expand the notion of painting to new media (prints, fabrics, clothing, video, etc.), she feeds on the legacy of gender studies, queer theories, Donna Haraway’s Cyborg manifesto, to emancipate the medium, especially in reaction to the dominant and normative trends of representation in the field of modern and contemporary art. For example, when it takes up the codes of geometric abstraction, it emphasizes the male domination in the history of art and the avant-gardeartistic guards but also how this aesthetic of abstraction could be recovered by the media and advertising to convey a macho vision of society.
His works help create a fictional universe, out of time, which is not dominated by man but by other forms of existence. The use of the animal figure and the aesthetics of childhood allows him to strengthen this alternative approach to the world. Also, geometry is a tool that allows him to explore new heterotopias that would be outside the world of humans. Her feminist approach to art is part of an intersectional and post-colonial feminism, proposing a different model of life in society than that of capitalist development, arguing for the importance of utopia, humor, pleasure, tenderness, both in the field of art but also in life in general. For the artist, images can function as bio-political tools because colors, shapes, formats, are all components that affect the body and its subconscious, both physically and intuitively.