Paula Serrano Espelta (b. 1995) is an Argentinian artist born in San Francisco and raised in Buenos Aires. For the past five years she has been primarily based in Berlin.

She studied Visual Arts at UMSA (Universidad del Museo Social Argentino) and completed postgraduate studies in Neuroscience with focus on Education at UB (Universitat de Barcelona). Her work is rooted in a deep curiosity about human behavior, emotional intelligence, and the influences—often unseen—that shape individual and collective identities.

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Paula's artistic practice revolves around the creation of large-scale assemblage and collage pieces, meticulously crafted from a diverse array of self-made and intervened materials. She collects many of these elements from the streets, each carrying a past, an overlooked story, a fragment of something once whole. By weaving these elements together, she gives them new meaning, showing how what is discarded—physically, emotionally, or socially—can become part of something greater. 

Her work explores how external influences shape us, often without us realizing it. The expectations we absorb, the patterns we repeat, the way we edit ourselves to fit into the world. Through textures, layers, and contrasts, she examines this tension between what is imposed on us and what is truly ours.

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Recycling is not just part of her process, it’s part of her language. The act of reclaiming, reinterpreting, and rebuilding is at the heart of her work, much like how we reconstruct our own narratives over time.
 

At its core, her art is about connection—between past and present, the material and the emotional, personal experience and collective memory. She invites the viewer to pause, reflect, and reconsider what we keep, what we let go of, and what stories we choose to tell.

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You can find my artist statement here.