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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 (Berlin, 1989)- and Unidos en la Gloria y en la Muerte (1997), there are two more recent works by the artist: La novia muerta (The Dead Bride) and La República (The Republic), both from 2019.
In Gonzalo Díaz’s works, the fundamental questions of our recent history are posed in the face of a permanent dilemma: that of visually rethinking the image of a republic in absence and the drama of a fragmented collective life. Lonquén (1989), Il Posto’s permanent installation, sharply insists on these issues. Exhibited for the first time at the Ojo de Buey Gallery in 1989, this work symbolically processes what the artist called the «pestilent punctum» of the dictatorship: the kidnapping and murder of 15 peasants from Lonquén and the discovery of their remains in the ovens of a lime mine, now converted into undeniable proof of the horror.
The five works presented in this exhibition invite us to think about everything that continues to flicker in our history, like the fragile neon lights that have never ceased to appear in the works of Gonzalo Díaz.
Curator: Il Posto
Art handler: Joaquín Henríquez y Camila Moya.
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October, 2022
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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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