Tota Reciclados

(Argentina, 1959)

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The Argentinian duo Tota Reciclados consists of designers Valeria Hasse (1963) and Marcela Muñiz (1959).

Valeria Hasse was trained as a graphic designer at the University of Buenos Aires. After that, she followed a postgraduate course at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht (2000). Marcela Muñiz is an architect who also studied at the University of Buenos Aires. She was Artist in Residence at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany in 2005. Hasse and Muñiz are based in Buenos Aires but travel all over the world with their projects and workshops. Their work is part of several private collections and the collection of the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo, Norway.

Tota Reciclados were selected as Artists in Residence by the Françoise van den Bosch Foundation in 2013. During their stay in Studio Rian de Jong in Amsterdam they developed Broken Memories, Precarious Links, creating a new jewellery collection with its own story, made up of old materials and existing stories and memories.