An Argentine artist and poet won the Ibero-American Poetry Prize

Romina Berenice Canet, an Argentine artist who crosses poetry, photography and the construction of toys to investigate the sinister and the unconscious, was the winner of the 43rd Juan Ramón Jiménez Ibero-American Poetry Prize for her book of poems “La maleza”. The members of the jury – the writers and poets Jesús Fernández Palacio, Julieta Valero and Marisa Martínez – unanimously decided to grant the distinction to Canet among the 1,188 works presented, the largest number in the history of the contest, highlighting that it is a book that “deautomates the current language with images of impact and lyrical paradoxes in the line of the aforema”. The writer and artist has a diverse radius of action to propose her creations, delimited by literature, old toys, Latin American art, pop surrealism, sensuality, irony and circus. His works include dolls and bears with which he explores the ambiguity of childhood: play and fantasy, but also fears and uncertainty. Canet, who has been based for 13 years in the town of Bristol (England), will have the publication of her work and will receive the $ 20,000 offered by the prize convened by the Diputación de Huelva.La artist fuses photography and poetry in works that arise as a result of her research in theoretical areas such as carnival, the unconscious, the sinister and the abject. In both his 2D and 3D work, he aims to translate South American textures into contemporary artworks.

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