Rossina Bossio was a multidisciplinary artist born in Bogotá, Colombia, who passed away in 2023. She studied Visual Arts at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in her hometown and Fine Arts at L’École des Beaux-Arts in Rennes, France. Her work, which ranges from painting and drawing to video and performance, has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei (MoCA), The Imperial City Art Museum (BAMOIC) in Beijing; the Grand Palais in Paris; the Tribeca Cinemas in New York; and the Saint Claire’s Church Museum in Bogotá, among others. Prioritizing both the conceptual and the aesthetical, Rossina Bossio brought together traditional and new media aiming to close the gap between the two through a representational approach. Searching for a connection between static and moving images, Bossio’s painted characters and spaces came to life through sound and movement on the screen. Her multidisciplinary practice was rooted in subversive ideas of femininity and in Latin-American culture. Her portraits were complex, ambiguous, and reflected an endless quest around the paradoxes of the human condition. The beauty of her subjects —mainly women— was not complacent or sweet: it was visceral and ambiguous; it was the kind of beauty that confronted the viewer while subverting taboos and stereotypes. Growing up in Bogotá in a highly conservative and religious environment, Bossio’s earliest drawings and paintings examined traditional conceptions of gender and sexuality. Nowadays, her army of painted women aimed to provoke discussions around a variety of subjects related to the human condition, and not just women’s condition, imagining a utopian world where we will no longer need to talk about gender issues when facing images of women in galleries and museums. For her multimedia projects, Bossio performed solo and in the company of prominent dancers, while directing Colombian and international artists in the fields of music, film, photography, and costume design. The desire to combine her paintings with other artistic forms was rooted in her strong belief that art should be corporeal. Rossina Bossio sought to surround the viewer from all possible angles, with static and moving images as well as music and enveloping atmospheres, in order to facilitate a highly emotional and aesthetic experience.