Janet Toro

Grenzen

Brautkleid (Wedding dress) White tulle, cloth, threads, pencil Measures: 75 x 190 cm Wedding dress sewn by hand, with more than 160 petals of cloth, labeled, with all the words of love and hate that German men have told me. In 2006 I repaired the dress and sewed new pieces of tulle. After that I …

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Habeas Corpus

In this installation I wish to insist on the material need for a sign of that negated body, which will allow us to fulfill at least on a symbolic level, the rite of burial, hence the presence of the earth, as the last element of a life cycle, that closes or opens to a new …

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Radiografía

To denude the habitable to the scrutinizing, radiographic gaze of the spectators, putting at the reach of their hands each of the objects that I use daily, opening the drawers, unpacking the suitcases, hanging from the walls of my apartment all my belongings, from the most intimate to the most profane. Here is a rupture …

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Isolation

Each year between 500,000 million and 1 billion plastic bags are consumed in the world. About 100,000 marine animals such as turtles, whales and dolphins die every year because of plastic bags. (veoverde.com) This work is inspired by two invisible women: my great aunt Margaro who always wrapped her things in newspaper. And Katy a …

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Farewell

An installation that exposes the process of a end point. As in nature those processes are visually shown in a clear way, it was necessary to create a physiognomy to that end point, to emigrate. Close a chapter, with forms that said goodbye to the place, that housed my dreams and my disappointments. I collected …

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Secluded

I disseminate huge quantities of waste plastic from the Industry throughout my department. Each room is completely covered up until the door frames of the rooms are sealed, in such a way that nobody can enter them. The spectators can only stay in the narrow hallway. Here the idea of ​​a wall, of a closed …

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Sacra Fames

This installation is a minimalist imitation of a common living room, in a totally different context, that occupies the floor of the tower of a Lutheran church. The carpet is made out of white flour, in whose center stands a chair, also covered with flour. In the middle of the room is a television, whose …

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Dos preguntas

The Performance consisted of each carrying a sign on the chest, with a question: Claudia’s poster said: Why are you smiling? And my poster said: Why are you sad? For me these two simple questions that appeal to an emotional sphere were subversive, at a time when censorship played a determining role at all levels …

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La sangre, el río y el cuerpo

The pseudo-democracy, the pacts of silence, the Amnesty Law, the impunity regarding the violation of Human Rights, were the context. From an organic vision of the city, I make a parallel between my body and the territory, between the blood and the river. Invoking from the water, as a vital principle, all its power of …

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La línea

From the photographic record of the previous Performance: The blood, the river and the body, I chose a slide, where I am wrapping myself with the bloody canvas. This image was projected like a gigantografía, in a wall of the Faculty of Right of the University of Chile. The image was fixed. From that same …

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