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Exhibition Radical Intimacy. Over-runs and gestures, MNBA Santiago

Opening May 15 at 17:00 p.m. An exhibition that reviews the prominent Chilean artist’s career between 1985 and 2025. Curated by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, this retrospective brings together paintings, objects, and recordings of performances and installations to review the career of Janet Toro (Osorno, 1963) between 1985 and 2025. The artist began her career in 1985, …

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Lecture The body of memory at Goldsmiths University

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Exhibition The Body of memory, Peltz Gallery

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Exhibition La memoria en el cuerpo, MAC Santiago

Opening July 13 at 6:00 p.m. For this exhibition, the Chilean artist Janet Toro revisits two emblematic performances carried out immediately after the Military Dictatorship. This is La sangre, el río y el cuerpo (1990), presented on the banks of the Mapocho River, where the artist moves through the concepts of flow, water, blood, death, …

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Absence / Presence

With the cooperation of: Lucrecia Brito Vásquez, Kelly Echiburú, Lorena Estivales Arratia, Paula Fuica Holzapfel, Alejandra Holzapfel Picarte, Vanessa Marimón Fuentes, Amelia Negrón, María Isabel Ortega Fuentes, Pilar Quintanilla Venegas I intervene in the external museum space with an installation, exactly in the place of the stones, in the tray at the entrance of the …

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Bienal del Mercosur

Feminine(S). visualities, actions and affects General curator Andrea Giunta The title of this biennial poses a question that points to the tension at the core of contemporary democratic culture: participation in society on the basis of “difference” understood— as Denise Ferreira da Silva puts it — as multiplicity rather than separation, as expressed by Denisse …

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Exposition Entre Lineas / An archeology of the contemporary

7. November – 5. Dezember 2019 16:00 – 20:00 Uhr Galerie AFA Av. Providencia 1614, Piso 2, Santiago, Chile

El Despojo

With the former residents of Villa San Luis: María Caceres, Antonieta Miranda, Ximena Salinas, María Aravena, Jovita Sandoval, Graciela Gómez, Adela Bustamante, Jimena Mendez, Bernarda Reyes, Miguel Manríquez, Mirna Parada, Olga Rojas, Aidé Contreras, Rosa Vargas, Olga Barriga, Margarita Monges. Neoliberal expropriation, urban devastation, architecture of destruction, eviction, dispossession are concepts, we have observed in …

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Installation La Torre Vive

Beyond the cement, the iron structures, the retaining walls of this building, I was interested in investigating the spirit that animated and promoted this construction, an emblematic building. From his story I was moved by the passion that shaped him, as part of an ideology that promoted human development and fundamental rights, … subsequently violated, …

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Group exhibition Radical Women: Latin American Art 1960-1985

Photographic documentation of the Performance Dos preguntas (Two questions) Pinacoteca Sao Paulo, Brazil from 18th August to 19th November 2018 Curators Cecilia Fajardo-Hill and dr. Andrea Giunta Lecture by the artist on November 12, collaboration of the Pinacoteca and Art Museum of Sao Paulo, MASP.