Isidora Villarino
Bio
Graduated in Art from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, with a postgraduate degree in Visual Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence -Italy and studies on analytical drawing and art criticism in Madrid - Spain.
Her work has been exhibited in galleries, museums, biennials and fairs both in Chile and abroad.
She has been chosen among the seven artists of the year by the circle of critics (2019); His work has been nominated for the Latin American Art Award (2021), chosen among the 5 best projects of Salón Acme (Mexico City 2023), awarded as best project at SWAB Fair, being acquired by the Sorigué Collection (Barcelona 2021), awarded at the Triennial of Contemporary Art (France, 2016), finalist in several visual arts competitions and winner of the Young Art award (2022).
Different national and international media have published her work, which is part of collections in Chile, Spain, Mexico, Peru, Germany and the United States.
Statement
In the work of Isidora Villarino, the city has a fundamental place, thus architecture and urban space are a constant that mainly through drawing and installation transport us to common places, places that we have walked many times without seeing them. In this way, reality - one that we hardly ever notice - from the very beginning has been the starting point of her work.
Through her works, Isidora establishes a relationship between human beings and their environment, rescuing sensations and identities; the structure of the city, one that inherently reveals stories, cultural traces in ceaseless movement.
Thus, elements adjacent to construction constantly appear in her work: the incidence of light on the place or perspectives hinted by the arrangement of the elements establish relationships between the subtlety of nature and the roughness of the construction. This characteristic is intensified by a delicate technique of the drawing and the ink.
