Chile 2021

Title: Testimonial spaces
Commissioner: Cristóbal Molina, Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage of Chile
Curators: Emilio Marín, Rodrigo Sepúlveda
Exhibitors: Guillermo Lazo, Alfredo Muñoz, Miguelina Haití, Tamara, Grupo La China Cumbiera, Ana María Tapia, Sara Molina, Mauricio Hernández, Roxana Escalona, Karen Quintana, Nelly Lobos, Cristina Rupayán, María Soledad Granadino, Luisa Espinoza, Damaris Díaz, José Pincheira, Wladimir Gajardo, Tristán Santana, Paula Puelma, Claudia Orellana, Natalia Soto, Silvia Vega, Manuel Triviño, Vladimir Bravo, Valeria Fernández, Alonso Rivas, Sugeide López, Adela Santana, Luis Romero, Marco Escobar, Iván Gutiérrez, María Elena Lara, Felicita Collante, Emilio Marín, Rodrigo Sepúlveda, Pablo Ferrer, Juan Radic, María Gracia Fernández, Pablo Bugnoli, Victoria Campino, Alessandra Dal Mos, Paloma Palominos, Tatiana Carbonell, Madeleine Fagalde, María Loreto Arancibia, Isidora Santana, Emilia Costabal, José Calderón, Sebastián Galdámez,Bastián Naveas,Javiera Sánchez, Paulina Sánchez, Benjamín Rojas, CamilaMoya, Antonia Daiber, Andres Bortnik, Nicole Beaupuits, Sofia Squadritto, Daniel Estrada,María José Flores, Angelo Bonnet, Dominique Rucán, Samanta Nash,Jocelyn Parrado, Daniela Diaz, Javiera Jara, Pablo González, Francisco Faúndez, Sylvia Lazo, Efraín Millán, Bernardita Marambio, Angélica Rocha, Celia Reyes, Gloria Delgado, Angélica Berríos, Krisna Pérez, Maritza Castillo, Silvia Delgado, Silvia Donoso, Eliana Sobarzo, Ricardo Gatica, Mónica Oyarce, Luis Celis, Gloria Morales, Clara Vergara Duque, Víctor Celis, Paola González, Marcelo Rivas, Lidia Muñoz, Julio Díaz, Juan Aguilera Escobedo, Fernando Peña, Marcelo Bugueño, Luis Pérez, Patricio Pino, Nelly Ramírez.

The main piece in the Chilean pavilion is 500 testimonies transformed into 500 paintings. Based on a set of formal rules and collective work where authorship is diluted within the community, painters and historians have brought together the stories of the emblematic José María Caro settlement and turned them into images.

Testimonial Spaces is an exhibition that focuses on pursuing memories, yearnings, and the spatial tactics of an integrated life; on a city that is the end result of an inventory filled with stereotypes; on a biographical city where architectures, imaginary routines, and common spaces and circumstances rebuild an already inhabited and imperfect city, longed for and idealised: a house, a park, a streetmarket, a sports area, the neighbourhood, the fact of living next to each other.