“Chile” acrylic paint, varnish, graphite,oil painting. 45 x 110 cm. 2013
Briefly describe the work you do.
Tell us about your background and how that has had an influence on your work and on you as an artist.
Chile is, from a geographic point of view, long, narrow and multicultural. The Near North and the Central Region of the country have been my life’s scene. I feel an eternal love for the flowering desert (unique in this world) and for the Andes’ mountain rage. These geographical zones, for whatever reason, shaped me since I was a child, and I keep admiring their immense beauty.
The concept of the artist studio has a broad range of meanings in contemporary practice. Artists may spend much of their time in the actual studio, or they may spend very little time in it. Tell us about your individual studio practice and how it differs from or is the same as traditional notions of “being in the studio.”
My working place is “the place where I happen to be”, be it a library, a bus, or my room. Personally, I don’t dispose of a studio where to realize my works. However, that does not put a limit to the hours I dedicate to creating art.
“El cuerpo sufre” collage, graphite, acrylic paint. 60 x 100 cm. 2011
What roles do you find yourself playing that you may not have envisioned yourself in when you first started making art?
For some reason, I’ve always had the intuition of being creating, working on and observing art.
When do you find is the best time to make art? Do you set aside a specific time everyday or do you have to work whenever time allows?
It is always time to create. From day to day, almost like a routine, I assign time for creating, mostly at night. I can pass hours and hours working without feeling the exhaustion which the night brings.
How has your work changed in the past five years? How is it the same?
Five years ago, my work was scattered and focused on investigating sources. Now I can see that my work is consolidated in both visual and conceptual terms. At present I can observe a particular and contemporary imaginary , grown eager through constant learning.
How have people such as family, friends, writers, philosophers, other artists or even pop icons had an impact on the work you do?
Naturally, the family and other close persons have an influence in giving the impulse to having perseverance in working, to continuing one’s way and not to turn away from it. I admire the simplicity of narrative and visual works and the professions that human beings can have when they do not aspire to wealth and recognition. Seeing that, I think it is a way worth following: I am concentrated only in my work, confident that the work itself will talk, travel and cross the world.
Have you ever been pulled in the direction of a pursuit other than being an artist? What are your other interests?
In some moment, I studied design. However, time passed by and I felt a necessity for art, I understood that – in spite of its way being vertiginous and sometimes agonizing -art is what makes me happy and which satisfies my soul. My interests also comprehend free education and the revaluation of ancient.
About
The artist was born in 1986 in Chile which at that time respired the military dictatorship. The comet Halley was the year’s protagonist. The artist’s childhood was immersed, marked by her developing an imaginary full of questions and particular curiosities which the family still remembers. At home, there always existed a sewing machine, tools and materials which every day were used for creating and for resolving every-day matters. Nature and the mistakes of human progress were recurrent in the artist’s early observation of what was going on in her country.
Generally, arts is considered a subject different from the other subjects which figure in the scholar curriculum. It is considered to be pleasant and less academic than the others. However, when the artist lived in this panorama of artistic education, her curiosity always led her to experiment and create with what was near her. In her first artwork in college, when she had to made a replica of a contemporary artist’s work and chose Joan Miro and his work “The moon and the bird (La luna y el pájaro)”, she managed to create something distant from the original work but in which in a peculiar way remained its essence. This was the starting point for the artistic production. Later, thanks to academic studies and personal investigation the artist understand, develop and conceptualize in what she names “that the key lies in creating, creating and die creating”.In this way, talent can be developed, polished, smashed and revived.
The techniques with and on which she works are painting, printing and mixed techniques; she es about to include screen printing into her visual repertoire.
The artist has participated in the National Contest of Young Art in the University of Valparaiso and was selected from over 500 participants. Her work was published in national newspapers such as “El Ciudadano”, in regional newspapers such as “El Trabajo” and on virtual platforms. A few months ago, “Le Monde Dilpomatique” began to use some of her paintings as illustration for the Chilean edition. The artist’s work has permanated in the underground, but is slowly beginning to be shown in various digital displays and hopefully will find it’s way to a gallery soon.
All images copyright of the artist and used with their permission.
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