On the occasion of the group exhibition of shortlisted finalists for the 5th edition of the Mario Merz Prize at Fondazione Merz (Turin, Italy), Voluspa Jarpa presents The Extinction Project (2025). The work grows out of the learnings of Sindemia (2022–2024), a research project that examined the social conflicts that unfolded in Latin America between […]
Raquel Aguilar Colivoro and Voluspa Jarpa have together created a choreography of poetry and materials, ascending and descending, both inside and outside the Capilla Azul (Blue Chapel). Inside, the forest woman, dressed in leaves and birds, hangs suspended from the zenith of the architecture. A physical extension of the Contuy forest, she brings with her […]
Chilean artist Voluspa Jarpa’s work has enquired into the capacity to reverse the prevalent conditions of censorship in our history’s most compromising documents. Following the declassification carried out in the United States in relation to the 1973 coup d’état against Chilean president Salvador Allende, the artist initiates a very sophisticated debate on archival legibility. Jarpa […]
‘Por la línea corre el tren’ (Along the line runs the train) is an exhibition that tells the story of the 140 years of the Empresa de Ferrocarriles del Estado (State Railway Compay). The exhibition takes a look at the cultural impact that this means of transport has had on the construction of the identity […]
The pieces belonging to Serie Lo que ves es lo que es (What you see is what it is Series) correspond to the study of declassified files of the US Intelligence Services during the period 1948-1994 related to North American Minimalism and propose a revision of the declassified CIA files on Latin American countries. In […]
The work Zoo List (2023) and the mixed media work The Whiteness (2024) belong to the series Human Zoo. Through the investigation of documents, archives, and repositories from different time periods, the works in Human Zoo are a testimony to the existence of the 156 human zoos that took place in 141 cities in 19 […]