Title: Minimal Secrets
Year: 2012
Technique: Acrylic laser-cut cardboard
Size: 80 x 45 cm
Chile, 1971. She has participated in group and solo exhibitions in Chile and abroad. In 2019, she exhibited Altered Views in the Chilean pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale. She also participated in the Mercosur Biennial, the Saõ Paulo Biennial, and the Shanghai Biennial, among others.
She has held exhibits at the Latin American Museum of Art in Buenos Aires, Argentina; at Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile; th Museum of Modern Art in Bogotá; at the NOME gallery in Berlin; and at the Museum of Fine Arts of Chile, among others.
She received the Illy award at the ARCO Madrid Fair; and was a finalist for the Prix Meurice in Paris, among others. Her work is found in important national and international institutional collections.
This piece is one of the installments of a 3-part series addressing the common thread of the artist’s research project on declassified archival documents about Chile and other Southern Cone countries by the United States.
Specifically, this artwork consists of laser-cut documents on tar-impregnated roofing felt, creating a suspended volume. At the same time, it introduces a distinctive presence in the space by removing the blank areas of the documents through laser-cutting, leaving behind only the printed ink information from the original documents.
