Shapes of the invisible
Virginia Guilisasti
4 Oct - 30 Nov 2024
Press release Salta Museum of Contemporary Art:
The group exhibition proposed for Salta's MAC is assembled from the proposals presented by the three participating artists - Gimena Castellon Arrieta (AR), Virginia Guilisasti (CL) and Jimena Brescia (AR) - gathered around themes related to everyday gestures and materials. As an evolution of the exhibition presented in the city of Chillán in November 2023, included in the official selection of Bienalsur, the current show returns to the foundation of a work that is built from the assembly of installations that include video, photography and everyday materials such as cardboard, plush, different fabrics and a variety of elements rescued from the waste.
Formas de lo invisible starts from this minimal discovery, to recognize the value of what has been left aside, subjugated by the undisputed establishment of the so-called “normality”. This effort to recognize what seems fragile and ungraspable maintains a political correlate that points towards a recovery of the invisible gestures that sustain the agency of everyday life. By exposing and giving form to the power contained in these inconsequential gestures and actions, a small emancipation is also provoked, commonly associated with the situations that make up the realm of the feminine. Suddenly, this exhibition proposes a journey where the objects and acts of our lives begin to show a different force, an intrigue that reveals the existence of the world of care and shelter that welcomes our affective and bodily coexistence.
Description of the installations:
Virginia Guilisasti assembles a work that employs coirón, felt, cotton, weeds and other trivial materials to deploy a collective action. Through the repeated gesture of braiding with such elements, the artist collects the work of a number of women invited to participate in an act of slow liberation, inspired by the effort of an immigrant mother who braided her daughter's hair every morning.
List of works to be presented:
Title: “Tiempo de espera” (Waiting time).
- Wall of braids | Variable measures but large format | +of 2000 braids.
- Photos Yudy |2 small unframed digital photographs (1/2 letter)
- Backless spectator stool - museum - + cordon
- Sculpture & Drawing large format, site specific
Virginia Guilisasti (Chillaìn, Chile, 1979).
Bachelor of Arts in Painting and Bachelor of Education, Universidad Finis Terrae, Chile. Master in Visual Arts at the University of Chile. Visual arts workshop with Eugenio Dittborn (2013).
She has exhibited her work in various cities in Chile, Argentina, Peru, Ecuador and Spain. Highlights her participation in: “Voices from the gallery” in MAC Parque Forestal, 2021; “Impulso dominante” Galeriìa Bosque Nativo, Puerto Varas; “Espacios Develados” in Centro Cultural Ross, Pichilemu (2020), “Continuidades” in Centro Cultural Matta in Buenos Aires (2019), “Metalmorfosis. Chilean chapter of the National Women in the Arts” at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (2018) in Santiago de Chile and ‘Praìcticas de reparación’ at CENTEX, Valparaiìso and at Sala CCU (2017) in Santiago. Curator and participant of the Ave Feìnix Project, where she worked with a group of women affected by the great fire in the city of Valparaíso in 2014. She has participated in the international art fairs ARTLIMA, Lima and Ch.ACO, in Santiago.
In 2007 she was recognized with first place in the APECH Prize, awarded by the Association of Painters and Sculptors of Chile.
@virginiaguilisasti_arte
Mediation
The exhibition includes three workshops designed by each artist as forms of mediation. The workshops are open to the public by registration. The museum collaborates in the call for registration. On the other hand, the artists will complete a research internship at the Library, from October 10 to 14.
Launch Viewing Room
