Anthropology has shown the importance of storytelling in the construction of a collective identity in human societies: storytelling activates a performative mechanism that allows us to anchor and identify ourselves in shared referents. Throughout the process that goes from the articulation of those first stories to the construction of an official history, we tend, however, to lose the embodied aspect of those stories, that is, the way in which they emerge from – and circulate through – subjective corporealities, continually reinterpreting and reconfiguring themselves.

This exhibition aims to identify the presence of micro-histories and themes that unite a selection of Chilean artworks from the last 50 years. Some of these works already belong to the national canon while others, more recent, are still in the process of being told and read. All of them share, however, an incarnated sensibility, revealing the existence of poetic and affective ties that cross time and generational boundaries.  Without necessarily opposing official history, these works problematize and complexify established conceptions of corporeality, gender, desire, family and the domestic, thus opening up to more fluid readings.

The joint examination of these works becomes a subjective experience opento the interpretations of the viewer, whose physical and affective presence completes – temporarily – these embodied narratives.

Artists: Natalia Babarovic, Isidora Bravo, Roser Bru, Sebastián Calfuqueo, Juan Dávila, Paz Errázuriz, Las Yeguas del Apocalisis, Juan Pablo Langlois, Carlos Leppe y Krasna Vukosovic.,