PILAR ELGUETA AT THE DELFINA FOUNDATION’S RESIDENCY PROGRAM
Pilar Elgueta (Chile) is the selected artist for the Delfina Foundation’s Residency Program during Summer 2024. The artist-explorer activates ideas and images around the relation between the human being and landscape.
Using the limits of representation as a resource, failure is an aesthetic phenomenon, and the journey of exploration a creative practice, visual identity and first principle of her artistic work. Her multimedia research seeks to communicate the ways in which the experience of the world overflows us and collapses our systems, being only capable of capturing a small fragment, trusting in its power of translation and autonomy, and, at the same time, tempting our wills and their futility. A string of attempts, symbols, rhetorical figures and tautologies. The efforts and scaffolding – human and structural – involved in the action of transferring, deploying, arranging, sustaining, installing an image or language in a place.
During her residency at Delfina Foundation, Pilar plans to explore the following questions through philosophical, political, and speculative perspectives: What is it to be human today? How do we expand the limits of our own definition in a world and reality in accelerated transformation? She will do this through the creation of a project titled “The preservable of the unpreservable society”, founded on the logic of epic and poetic – but at the same time futile, somehow absurd – over-effort to make permanent that which is already being lost or is inherently impermanent.
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Pilar Elgueta, "I go in thinness of fog". Action documentation. Digital video, 7'. Part of "Starting in blue and ending in /", M100 Cultural Center. Santiago, Chile. 2022. (Video still courtesy of the artist)
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Pilar Elgueta, ".Jpg". Action documentation. Print of an analog photography. 200 x 100 cm. Part of "1/8 For the whole", solo show at MAVI Museum of Visual Arts. Santiago, Chile. 2017. (Photo by Javier Chorbadjian / Benjamin Matte)
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Pilar Elgueta, "Every end is equally the beginning". Video object. 3D animation on lenticular mirrored screen, removable iron box and tripod. 170 x 16,5 x 27 cm. Part of "Quietly in the middle, they sleep" solo show at +Arte Gallery. Quito, Ecuador. 2023. (Courtesy of the artist)
Pilar Elgueta received the 2015 award for the 10th version of the MAVI Contemporary Young Art Prize. From 2011 until today, she has participated in exhibitions at the MAC Contemporary Art Museum (Santiago, Chile), MAVI Museum of Visual Arts (Santiago, Chile), in the context of SACO6 Biennale (Antofagasta, Chile), Asia Contemporary Art Platform NON Berlin (Berlin,Germany), Ambos Mundos Gallery (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Espacio Lalitho (Oaxaca, México), Palmera Ardiendo (Cuernavaca, Mexico), NAC Gallery (Santiago, Chile), Matucana 100 Cultural Center (Santiago, Chile), +Arte Gallery (Quito, Ecuador), Parallels Shows at Cuenca’s Biennale (Cuenca, Ecuador), GAM Cultural Center (Santiago, Chile), among others. She has participated in research and artist-in-residence programs at the MAVI Museum of Visual Arts (Santiago, Chile), Molten Capital at the MAC Contemporary Art Museum (Santiago, Chile), Ambos Mundos in Epecuén Residency (Epecuén, Argentina), at Estudio Abierto Residency (Oaxaca, Mexico), among others. Her works are part of the MAVI Museum of Visual Arts collection and the National Contemporary Art collection (Santiago, Chile).
Pilar is born and based in Santiago, Chile.
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