La Chola Poblete

La Chola Poblete (born 1989) is an Argentinian multidisciplinary artist and activist. She is known for sculpture, painting, performance art, drawing, photography, and video art. Her art primarily focuses on femininity, queerness and indigenous roots. She resides in Buenos Aires.

Early life and education La Chola Poblete was born in 1989 in the city of Guaymallén, in Mendoza, Argentina. She was raised in a matriarchal family by a single mom and multiple aunts.

La Chola Poblete moved in 2017 to Buenos Aires, where she performed as a member of the Comparsa Drag art collective. This exhibition Guaymallén, named after her home city, is a tribute to the artist’s indigenous roots and queer identity. Through this exhibition, La Chola Poblete addresses the historical roles of women and trans people, in which she explains how femininity is often persecuted and ostracized by ideologies that are patriarchal and religious. This is the first time the work of La Chola Poblete was presented her work there. She states “I am the first trans and brown artist from Argentina to reach the Biennale". The Virgin embodies the connection between Western culture and indigenous communities that La Chola Poblete wants to portray.