Virginia Guilisasti Chilean, b. 1979

Overview

Her work addresses themes related to the domestic and intimate spaces of the home. Virginia explores abandoned or ruined places and collects various materials, which she then categorizes to create structures or compositions using different two-dimensional techniques.

The visual artist Virginia Guilisasti was born in Chillán in 1979. She has a degree in Art with a major in Painting from the Finis Terrae University and a Masters in Visual Arts from the University of Chile.

 

She has exhibited in places such as the National Museum of Fine Arts (Santiago, Chile), Salta Museum of Contemporary Art (Salta, Argentina), Matta Cultural Center (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Matucana 100 Cultural Center (Santiago, Chile), Museum of Contemporary Art (Santiago, Chile). ), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Valdivia, Chile), Galería Multinacional (Quito, Ecuador), Festival de Artes Villar de los Barrios (Pontferrada, Spain), Sala de Arte CCU (Santiago, Chile), Centex (Valparaíso, Chile), Galería Espacio O (Santiago, Chile), among others.

 

Within her improvement activities, she participated in the Taller Bloc residency (2009 Santiago, Chile) and in the Línea Imaginaria program (2015 Quito, Ecuador).

 

The artist lives and works in Matanzas, Chile.

Works
Statement

My work addresses themes related to the everyday; I make visible realities and topics that may seem to lack value and are related to our delicate domestic life; the house, the home, migration, rural life, precariousness and loss, parenting, among others.

My working methodology leads me to explore various techniques such as drawing, installation, photography, painting, video, textiles, among others.

I investigate abandoned spaces, specifically houses, and select discarded materials; remnants of insignificant things that tell their existence. I collect, then classify to build structures that manifest their resilient state.

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