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, …
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 …
In my own house, Santiago, Chile, abril 2020 Documentation: Marucela Ramírez Distance and social isolation in times of pandemic Janet Toro, April 20 The distance between us is the paralyzed caress, the warmth and the affections banished to a classified dangerous area. Abusive states of exception, quarantines, curfews are the urban landscape, I see uncrowded …
In my house Santiago, Chile, april 2020 Documentation: Marucela Ramírez Distance and social isolation in times of pandemic Janet Toro, April 20 The distance between us is the paralyzed caress, the warmth and the affections banished to a classified dangerous area. Abusive states of exception, quarantines, curfews are the urban landscape, I see uncrowded streets, …
En mi propia casa, Santiago, Chile, abril 2020 Documentación fotográfica: Marucela Ramírez Distance and social isolation in times of pandemic Janet Toro, April 20 The distance between us is the paralyzed caress, the warmth and the affections banished to a classified dangerous area. Abusive states of exception, quarantines, curfews are the urban landscape, I see …
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 …
It is believed that the first symbol that represented the concept of freedom or liberation was written around 2300 BC. on a clay tablet, in Lagash, today Tell al-Hiba, in Iraq. It is the Sumerian word Ama-gi, which literally translated means “return to the mother”. The inscription corresponds to the time when Urukagina assumed power …
In medicine it is a pathology. It is a negative utopia, where reality runs in terms antagonistic to those of an ideal society. They are closed or claustrophobic spaces. A dystopian scenario is performed, alluding to different spaces where this condition takes place. Inspired by the peep shows (the Miroteca), the pieces of domestic employees …
