Maite Izquierdo
Bio
Maite Izquierdo (1978, Santiago, Chile). Plastic Artist, Graduate in Visual Arts, Catholic University (2001). He has held 11 individual exhibitions and more than 20 group exhibitions in national and international spaces. In 2015 she was selected to represent Chile at #15 Textile Art Triennial, in Łódź, Poland. In 2019, the video-art “Herencia” was awarded 2nd place at the WTA Madrid International Textile Art Biennial. His exhibition “Corambre”, in Sala Arte CCU, was chosen by the “Círculo de Críticos de Críticos de Chile” as the best exhibition of the year 2022. He is currently working on the collaborative and social project “Manto de Reparación”, to be exhibited in Gasco Room, 2025.
Statement
Maite Izquierdo has 20 years of experience where she has been outlining a language that links contemporary textiles with existential experience. It treasures materials with history to then rework bodies that house spaces. It rescues vestiges, perceiving the textile as a second skin. His work shows the chromatic gesture of the material, revealing the creative moment as an intimate and transformative ritual that has required expansion, thanks to collaborative work, generating monumental installations.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
