Gloria Frugone
Bio
Gloria Frugone
Bachelor's Degree in Education and Literature, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.
Analysis workshop with Chilean painter Matías Movillo, where she began her research into working with paper.
Studies in stoneware sculpture with Consuelo de la Maza, University of Lima.
Contemporary art workshops with painter Cristián Silva.
Artistic practice focuses on working with paper and PVC.
Exhibitions and Fairs
Since 2012, she has participated in solo and group exhibitions in spaces such as Galería La Sala and Espacio en Tránsito.
From 2023 to the present, she has participated in fairs such as Art Santiago, FAXXI, and Art Week (Santiago, Chile).
2022: Affordable Art Fair, New York.
2025: Solo exhibition “Reflections on Light,” Isabel Aninat Gallery, Santiago.
2026: Collective exhibition “The Skin of Water”, The Gallery, Lima.
Statement
Gloria Frugone
My practice explores light as an unstable phenomenon that shapes our experience of space and time. I work primarily with paper, whose fragility and transformative capacity allow me to reveal how light is inscribed, shifts, and modifies perception.
Through cuts, folds, overlaps, and, occasionally, painterly interventions, I construct geometric structures that activate shifting relationships between light and shadow. These material operations generate perceptual fields where figure and ground cease to be fixed categories and are constantly reorganized.
Light acts as an active agent: it passes through, projects, and transforms the material, producing variations that depend on both natural light and the viewer's movement. The work thus becomes an open system, where the visible is gradually revealed.
More than representing light, my work seeks to make it operative, allowing its ephemeral and mutable nature to activate a constantly transforming perceptual experience.
