Cara A

Life
Patsi Patsi, also known as Cara A in South America and Spain, is the pseudonymous of a writer and abstract painter who is believed to be a native of Mexico. According to Pilar Goutas, Patsi was born in 1980 and raised in New Jersey, Usa.
It is uncertain which places she visited and for how long, but recently she has been living in Hungary where her work is now moving in new directions.
Hidden identity
She was obsessed with shareing her privacy but without disclosing her identity.
This way, she leaves apart all prejudices and expresses herslef freely.
Nevertheless, people have always had the urge to reveal the others complete privacy; as a matter of fact, many graphology investigations have been made to find out more about her personality by studying some of her handwritten texts.
Works
Patsi Patsi’s works mostly involve abstract paiting, writing and printmaking projects. Her early works were presented at the Galería de Arte Alfa de Guanajuato included Smile (2001): a series of printmaking portraits for her book La sonrisa más falsa (The most fake smile)(2000); most of these were destroyed after a short period of time.
This Gallery also promoted her first and single performance Nueva era (New age)(2002) that took place at a beach in Valencia, Spain, were she was followed by groups of invited guests from Mexico and spanish surroundings. She took advantage of the fact of the warm San Juan Night, a summer celebration on the eastern beaches of Spain, where people make fires on the beach to receive the arrival of the summer; in this piece she left all her texts and past works on the beach to be burned by the public.
Some of her later works were presented at the Leibovitz Gallery of New York including her famous series of printmaking works for her book of texts Migración voluntaria (Voluntary Migration) (2006).
In 2008 the Musée d'art abstrait du Paris presented her exhibition of paintings Untitled.

Patsi represented Mexico at the Couthon Art Fair in 2008 with her series of texts Dos Minutos de Odio (Two Minutes Hate) inspired in George Orwell’s book 1984. In this piece she discharges all her negative energy through the writting of letters directed to people she hated some time in her life and who made her suffer.
At the moment she is working in Budapest on a new project with which she will present to the Diógenes competition.

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