Patricia Bentancur

Patricia Bentancur (b. 1963, Montevideo, Uruguay) is a visual artist, curator, and researcher with an extensive international trajectory, whose multidisciplinary practice spans photography, video art, installation, and conceptual strategies. Her artistic work, focused on themes such as memory, the body, violence, language, and territory, is part of several public and institutional collections, including the permanent collection at Point of Contact in Syracuse University, which holds three of her photographic works from 2010: Knives 1, Knife 2, and Diptych—visual reflections on the symbolic and physical sharpness of everyday objects, rendered with a quiet yet critical poetics.