This piece creates interventions in various areas of the National Library of Chile, using a historical event as starting point: the sacking and transportation of books at the end of the 19th century from the National Library of Peru to the National Library of Chile, and their subsequent return in 2007. This piece deals with […]
This piece interacts with the permanent collection of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Santiago, Chile. Specifically, it relates to one emblematic painting titled La perla del mercader de esclavas (The Slave Merchant’s Pearl) painted at the end of the 19th century in Paris by Alfredo Valenzuela Puelma. This painting was completed in 1882, […]
This work deals with the construction of large-volume objects through the thousands of figures of hysterical women corresponding to the twelve poses. In room 1, there is a volume whose shape changes according to the viewpoint of the visitor. Seen from further away it looks like a huge swarm of tiny and indefinable elements in […]
Taking as a starting point the image of the woman having an attack of hysteria, I’m borrowing from psychoanalytical theory the idea of an experience prior to the hierarchical constitution of language, in which, because of the impossibility of narrative, the body becomes the discourse. The images are arranged in a series of twelve rubber […]
This work consisted of transforming a photographic sequence of a woman with a hysterical attack (19th century) into stamps. From them, I formed a vertical and organic stain on the wall, producing the image of a swarm of hysterical figures superimposed on each other, which generated different densities of black, gray, and white, due to […]
This work reflects on the capacity of contemporary painting to refer to the historical facts that affect us in everyday life. For this exercise of resistance, I took two types of documents, some public (newspapers) and others private (declassified CIA files). First, I made a small-format graphic series with declassified CIA files, referring to the […]