honorable mention
Cecilia Avendaño chile
Photo © Avendaño Cecilia
title
PRECIOUS DISEASES
6/6
Giclee
Text from the book "The Precious Diseases" by Cecilia Avendaño
Cecilia Avendaño's work has revolved around portraiture since 2008, as an eloquent exercise in the generation of imaginaries, both materially and conceptually, tackling aesthetic, poetic, and political problems about the image. She is interested in researching about identity, gender, and ethnicity, from the perspective of the construction of body cartographies. In her work "Precious Diseases", she gets into a more introspective subject, which comes from what could be called autopoesisº, analyzing both the biological capacity and the tensions between the cultural, social, and natural aspects that affects our body and spirit.
The oxymoron -precious diseases- is then understood as a metaphor for the relationship between the apparent and the authentic, artificiality opposed to genuineness. It is an indecipherable body, unutterable a constant uncertainty between possessing a body and to be a body; an interstitial space between designation and poetry; the imposed and the need for healing through the energies that comprehend the relationship between human and nature.
It is there where the human/nature relationship becomes significant, as in the inseparable relationship between the Machi8 and nature. Wisdom lies in knowing how to listen to yourself and to heal yourself, with what protects you: light, nature, stars, earth
In the process of producing portraits about precious diseases, Cecilia Avendaño sculpts through digital post-production and the production of clothing and scenery, the possibility of an autonomous existence that, through aesthetic and technological resources, aims to capture our gaze to challenge our own beliefs about spiritual existence, about the possibility of looking ourselves to heal ourselves.
ºNeologism proposed in 1972 by Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela to define the the chemistry of self- maintenance of living cells, where a system is capable of reproducing and maintaining itself.
Her last art works consist in digital post production based on photography that she takes, through which she deconstructs them and articulates to compose new portraits, which mix elements coming from different models and objects, thus operating under the concept of identity construction. She is currently represented by Isabel Croxatto Galería and in Spain by Galeria SICART.
The images of the series "Precious diseases" represent somatization of the female cycle and its complex relationships with the body, the psyche and the cultural issues. The disease constitutes a metaphor for a state of repression that is liberated and openly manifested. In this way the disease constitutes the metaphor of the precious symptom that exposes a relegated part of our most intimate existence
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entry description
EP 056/6
Giclee
Text from the book "The Precious Diseases" by Cecilia Avendaño
Cecilia Avendaño's work has revolved around portraiture since 2008, as an eloquent exercise in the generation of imaginaries, both materially and conceptually, tackling aesthetic, poetic, and political problems about the image. She is interested in researching about identity, gender, and ethnicity, from the perspective of the construction of body cartographies. In her work "Precious Diseases", she gets into a more introspective subject, which comes from what could be called autopoesisº, analyzing both the biological capacity and the tensions between the cultural, social, and natural aspects that affects our body and spirit.
The oxymoron -precious diseases- is then understood as a metaphor for the relationship between the apparent and the authentic, artificiality opposed to genuineness. It is an indecipherable body, unutterable a constant uncertainty between possessing a body and to be a body; an interstitial space between designation and poetry; the imposed and the need for healing through the energies that comprehend the relationship between human and nature.
It is there where the human/nature relationship becomes significant, as in the inseparable relationship between the Machi8 and nature. Wisdom lies in knowing how to listen to yourself and to heal yourself, with what protects you: light, nature, stars, earth
In the process of producing portraits about precious diseases, Cecilia Avendaño sculpts through digital post-production and the production of clothing and scenery, the possibility of an autonomous existence that, through aesthetic and technological resources, aims to capture our gaze to challenge our own beliefs about spiritual existence, about the possibility of looking ourselves to heal ourselves.
ºNeologism proposed in 1972 by Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela to define the the chemistry of self- maintenance of living cells, where a system is capable of reproducing and maintaining itself.
about the photographer
She got a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts with a mention in Photography by the University of Chile; she lives and works in Santiago de Chile. During the last 15 years her work has been exhibit in numerous collective and individual exhibitions in Chile and abroad, and participated in international fairs of Contemporary Art.Her last art works consist in digital post production based on photography that she takes, through which she deconstructs them and articulates to compose new portraits, which mix elements coming from different models and objects, thus operating under the concept of identity construction. She is currently represented by Isabel Croxatto Galería and in Spain by Galeria SICART.
The images of the series "Precious diseases" represent somatization of the female cycle and its complex relationships with the body, the psyche and the cultural issues. The disease constitutes a metaphor for a state of repression that is liberated and openly manifested. In this way the disease constitutes the metaphor of the precious symptom that exposes a relegated part of our most intimate existence
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