Pilar Elgueta
Bio
Pilar Elgueta (Santiago, Chile, 1989) Graduated from the Art School of Universidad Católica, where she has worked as an assistant professor in multiple subjects. She was the first-prize winner of the MAVI/Minera Escondida Contemporary Young Art Prize in 2015.
Since 2011, she has held exhibitions in Chile and abroad in places such as the MAC Contemporary Art Museum (Santiago, Chile), MAVI Museum of Visual Arts (Santiago, Chile), Balmaceda Arte Joven, Minera Escondida Foundation (Antofagasta, Chile), Association Culturelle Oblik (Paris, France), and Asia Contemporary Art Platform NON Berlin (Berlin, Germany), Ambos Mundos Gallery (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Espacio Lalitho (Oaxaca, México), NAC Gallery (Santiago, Chile), among others.
Since 2016, she has participated in research and artist-in-residence programs at the Museum of Visual Arts, with Molten Capital at the Contemporary Art Museum, at Ambos Mundos in Epecuén, Argentina and at Estudio Abierto in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Statement
My work is developed in multiple supports. Through the installation and recording of actions in different media, it reflects on the relationship between humankind and landscape and its representation, the effort/result equation and the limits of our possibilities. My research on metaphors and actions aims to raise questions about wills and their futility, considering failure and wear and tear as an aesthetic phenomenon.
In a time divided between my studio work and on-site research, I create physical and conceptual journeys that lead to projects in which I am interested in developing topics such as the theory of image, the history of landscape, symbols of the screen age and environmental issues.
