With this exhibition, the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires celebrates the artistic career of the great Argentinian artist Dalila Puzzovio (Buenos Aires, 1942) to mark more than six decades of achievements and underscore her relevance to the present day.

Dalila burst onto the Argentinian scene in the early 1960s with disturbing objects created from orthopaedic casts. In her plastercasts, she began her exploration of the body, its limits and expressive possibilities, an inquiry that would run throughout the rest of her work.

In 1967, her famous double-platform shoes made her a permanent icon of Buenos Aires Pop, while her bold ventures into fashion, design and art in the public space pushed back the very boundaries of artistic creation. For Dalila, art and fashion form ‘an alphabet through which to convey different narratives’, a vocabulary to help us re-invent ourselves and build our own portrait in total freedom, while developing the different personalities through which we present ourselves to the world in acts of pure invention.

The exhibition brings together her most emblematic works in parallel with a vast documentary archive of unpublished material, photographs and records of key works in Argentinian art. In dialogue with the artist, we also have reconstructed significant works and relevant spaces from her career, such as her out-sized corsets, which announced her grand entrance into the Pop imaginary, or some of her most iconic costumes. We have also restored her legendary Self-portrait of 1966 to its original monumental scale.

In this retrospective, we present Dalila Puzzovio as an artist of striking contemporary relevance whose work with the body, fashion and identity anticipated today’s debates about the role of women in society and consolidated her place as a key figure in the history of Argentinian art.