Journal

Ana Chaveros: “You have to understand that the work is one second in the artist’s narrative”

One of the artists behind the art prints included in every Iskin Sisters necklace pack. An architect who came to painting through a crisis, Ana Chaveros makes canvases with more empty space than pa...

Verónica Valenti: “A work is finished when I’m satisfied with what I see and feel”

One of the artists behind the art prints included in every Iskin Sisters necklace pack. Verónica Valenti never uses a brush: she pours paint from above and drags it, working the canvas flat on the ...

United by Art: why every piece travels with an artist’s print

The programme behind the art prints in our packaging: we invite contemporary Argentine women artists to share their work, and every piece we make carries one out into the world.

Abstraction: “There is geometry in the humming of the strings”

The circle and its perfection as a starting point. Abstraction is made by hand in our Buenos Aires atelier by women artisans, and the V necklace has become one of the collection’s signature pieces ...

Our universe: “One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art”

Two sisters, born in Brazil to an Argentine mother and settled in Buenos Aires. This is where our pieces come from, why they are made and finished by hand in Argentina, and how they end up in museu...

Guillermina Lynch: “Real beauty is the kind that’s missing something — open, incomplete, broken”

One of the artists behind the art prints included in every Iskin Sisters necklace pack. Guillermina Lynch paints on velvet and then ruins it on purpose, because what interests her is everything hap...

Mónica Inés Fierro: “Classical dance was my first love and the axis of my whole life”

One of the artists behind the art prints included in every Iskin Sisters necklace pack. A ballet dancer who came to art at fifty, Mónica Inés Fierro embroiders and folds old books until they become...

María José Antelo: “Sometimes I feel the work takes pieces of my body with it”

One of the artists behind the art prints included in every Iskin Sisters necklace pack. María José Antelo left law at forty for wire, thread and water — and says the work carries away parts of her ...

Nora Aslán: “I don’t invent anything, I photograph what’s already there”

One of the artists behind the art prints included in every Iskin Sisters necklace pack. Nora Aslán turns Persian carpets into suffering crowds and fills her work with silent witnesses you cannot un...

Ides Kihlen: “Art is a different way of living, one you have to get used to”

Discovered at 83, painting fourteen hours a day at 102. The Argentine painter Ides Kihlen never needed an audience for her art to flow — one of the women who inspire us.