{"id":6853,"date":"2025-08-04T12:39:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T12:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ica.am\/?p=6853"},"modified":"2026-04-06T14:17:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T14:17:44","slug":"rita-batievsky-a-grammar-of-the-everyday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ica.am\/en\/rita-batievsky-a-grammar-of-the-everyday\/","title":{"rendered":"RITA BATIEVSKY: A Grammar of the Everyday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Rita Batievsky (Barcelona, 2004) is a visual artist currently based in Amsterdam, where she studies Fine Arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and works part-time as a teacher. Raised in a multicultural household with Peruvian and Mallorcan roots, Rita embraces the idea of an unfixed identity. \u201cLike a swallow, I am built to peregrine\u201d, she wrote during her two-week stay at our NEST Art Residency in July 2025.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though she has worked with various media throughout her artistic path, Rita\u2019s practice during the residency focused mainly on writing and painting – two art forms she constantly interweaves. Text and image run parallelly in her notebook, which serves as her personal archive and ever-evolving artistic project. She has indeed collected over a hundred notebooks of the same size already. With an almost anthropological gaze<\/strong>, she meticulously observes details of her surroundings, reworking them in the form of poems, descriptive texts, images. Fleeting scenes of everyday life feed the imaginary spaces of her drawings: a bird singing too loud, an apricot that suddenly splashes on the ground, a family reunited to chop a chicken in the streets of Kond, the flickering liveliness of a playground.<\/p>\n\n\n