Alfredo Quiroz
Bio
Alfredo Quiroz is a Paraguayan visual artist, physician and hematologist born in Asunción in 1974. With a fundamentally self-taught artistic training, he began to work with painting, to later develop graphic, audiovisual and installation works, sometimes working from the intermedial. His work explores issues related to memory, identities, loss, family and power. He has been exhibiting regularly since 2009. He has been awarded the Colors for Human Rights award, from the United Nations (Asunción, 2010). He was selected for the National Fine Arts Award (Asunción, 2010). In 2014 he obtained the Henri Matisse Award, awarded by the French Embassy in Paraguay, for which he had previously received an honorable mention (2012) and got second place (2013). He received an honorable mention at the Livio Abramo Awards (Asunción, 2014), and won the Invernadero, art-political-experiment (Asunción, 2015) and the Hippolyte Bayard Photography Award (Asunción, 2018). He carried out artistic residencies at La Escocesa (Barcelona, 2016) and at the Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris, 2017, 2019-2020). His work integrates public and private collections from Paraguay, the United States and Argentina.
Statement
My work seeks to address issues related to the subjective and those that are common, exposed to circumstances in which an element of threat is introduced. In my works there is an interest in raising questions about the constitution of identity profiles that dialogue with the other based on the notion of desire. Likewise, I am interested in corporality, and the way in which it becomes a space for interactions and disputes, and receives the effects of the environment. The idea of the common that challenges me is related to the intimate dimension of the domestic and the familiar, and opens towards shared community territories, crossed by memories and history. In my work, I conceive the threat from a sense of loss, which affects both the subjects in their psychic or bodily intimacy, as well as the collective bodies, exposed to pain, disappearance and oblivion.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
