entrelaspiedras is Nicolás Sánchez and entrelaspiedras.cl his personal website.
If I had to isolate a connecting thread which motivates my work, this would be without doubt the notion of search, not only in a metaphoric sense (since every artwork seeks something) but also literal; if I were to find an adjective that defines it, this would be its romantic nature, given by the sensible and melancholic approach to reality but also by the nature of the search itself. This romantic search takes a lot from past historic sensibilities, updated in a somewhat post apocalyptic and hopeless way, in cities in which we are always contained – in its two aceptions of included and repressed- but almost never content.
My works are simple gestures or everyday acts which through their exaltation are transformed in a way of designation. These experiences serve as pretexts for talking about certain urban situations that reveal the necessity of claim and recovery of other spaces and times for exchange and social links, other lost ways of relating with others and with the environment, other velocities and dynamics in the cities that we attempt to inhabit. Through art, to learn and seize life, illuminating new alternatives that allow living and understanding what surrounds us in richest and more diverse ways.
An art of powerful metaphoric resonances, of modern aesthetics and of vindicative ethics, concious of its inability to change the social and political order, but aware of its capacity to be a significative testimony that stirs consciences and exposes reality. To change the world one person at a time, without redeeming absolutisms, but rather through the addition of smaller projects, through small pocket utopias.
Studies
2007-2008, Master degree in Public Art, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, España
2000-2004, Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, Pontificia Universidad Católica, Chile
Recent shows & exhibitions
2010 August, SCL2110, MAC Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile
2010 June, Ikas Art, BEC, Bilbao, Spain
2010 April, Théâvida Latin American Video Festival, Espace Kawenga, Montpellier, France
2009 August, BVAM 9° Video & Media Arts Biennial, MAC Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile
2008 December, BAC Festival 2008, La Santa, Barcelona, Spain
2008 October, Public Art, Public University, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
2008 September, Parasite Residence, MeetFactory Gallery, Praga, Czech Republic
2008 August, Start Point 2008, Klatovy / Klenova Gallery, Praga, Czech Republic
2006 December, Periférica Internationl Art Fair, Borges Cultural Centre, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2006 October, DEFORMES 1° Performance Biennial, MAC Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile
2006 October, Spam_City, MAC Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile
2006 September, Globalization original matrix, MAC Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile
2006 March, Paximobile Project, Matucana 100 Cultural Centre, Santiago, Chile
2005 August (solo show), Surface, Galería Metropolitana, Santiago, Chile
2005 July (solo show), Empty spaces, Galería BECH, Santiago, Chile
Awards, scholarships, workshops
2009 September, Juan Downey Award for video creation
2008 April, Workshop with Isidoro Valcárcel Medina
2008 April, Workshop with Christian Boltanski
2007 October, Fondart Scholarship (Chilean Government award for international postgraduate studies)
2007 October, Workshop “Atacama Lab 2007” with artists and academics of Austin, Texas University
2006 November, Workshop with Tomás Saraceno
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