For Juan Pablo Langlois, the continuity of his work does not lie precisely in the themes of his artworks, but in a persistent interest in provoking the perturbation or dislocation of the gaze. This is clearly perceived in Segundo Viaje Sentimental («Second Sentimental Journey»), an exhibition that traces the artist’s itinerary through such unpredictable works as “Colchón Amatorio” (1981), “Miss Corazones Pescados” (1996) and “Papeles Ordinarios” (2005). More than anything else, the pieces exhibited here are cut-outs of everyday materials that alter our ways of seeing the human body (another object of permanent interest in Langlois’ work). As the artist points out, if there is something in common between the works exhibited in the «Miss» exhibition and the sculptures from «Ordinary Papers», that is precisely their ability to question certain idea of the ideal body that «ends up globalizing and imposing itself» at the expense of our own cultural identity.
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October, 2022
And suddenly, there was no longer a shore. Part two.
Various artists
This two-part exhibition takes as its starting point the tension between humidity and dryness. Through a movement between both qualities, the works gathered here explore aspects such as landscape, eroticism, language, colonial memory, extractive violence, crisis and regeneration of the planet. This first exhibition explores the possibilities of the liquid and the second will focus […]
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June, 2022
And suddenly, there was no longer a shore. Part one.
Various artists
This two-part exhibition takes as its starting point the tension between humidity and dryness. Through a movement between both qualities, the works gathered here explore aspects such as landscape, eroticism, language, colonial memory, extractive violence, crisis and regeneration of the planet...
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January, 2022
Pequeña y Hermosa Conjetura
Artist: Gonzalo Díaz
The exhibition Pequeña y hermosa conjetura brings together more than 30 years of the career of artist Gonzalo Diaz, winner of the 2003 National Visual Arts Award. Along with Fotoperformance -a work exhibited for the first time in Chile since its first appearance in Cirugía Plástica...
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October, 2021
Natural History of Destruction
Artist: Jorge Tacla
The ruins with which we coexist are not only the debris and material remnants of the past; they are, above all, the testimony of the losses associated with that disappearance. They also force us to deal with a series of conflicting stubble, the immaterial rust of decaying political institutions, expired ideological structures and archaic biases […]
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October, 2021
La Parte Maldita
Artist: Patrick Hamilton, Josefina Guilisasti, Christian Salablanca
Taking as a starting point a dislocated reading of Georges Bataille’s The Accursed Share (1949), this exhibition seeks to continue reflecting on violence, but now through the work of three contemporary artists. In El caso de las cajitas de agua (2003), Josefina Guilisasti takes a police case from history to elaborate, in seven parts, a […]
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December, 2020
Distanciamiento Social
Artist: Paz Errázuriz
«In my work there is a continuity. I could also call it a set of variations on the same theme. Small chapters that always point to the same thing. They are closed, marginal spaces, spaces of minorities. One learns to travel through worlds that are closer than we think. It is as if one had […]
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September, 2020
El Nudo de la Vida
Artist: Juan Downey
El nudo de la vida (“The knot of life”) proposes a visual and conceptual reflection on the early work of Chilean artist Juan Downey (1940 - 1993). The exhibition explores part of the pictorial and graphic work developed by the artist in the 1960s, while living in Barcelona, Madrid, Paris and New York...
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November, 2019
Nocturne
Artist: Iván Navarro
A nocturne, by definition, is a musical composition without a specific form that is usually performed at night when the lack of light sharpens the senses and ignites our thoughts. A nocturne, visually, can be an aesthetic incident, a shadowy image where lights...
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