EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN/ENGLISH

Artists: Dani Negri & Constanza Hermosilla

Curated by Galeria Metropolitana, Santiago de Chile / Chile

ENCUENTROS TEXTILES is articulated as a curatorial project based on two axes: the link with hinterland, Vienna, an independent space that coincides with the Galería Metropolitana, Santiago of Chile, in terms of promoting experimentation as a policy of action, the crossing and friction between high culture and popular culture and the vindication of the social function of art.

This project considers the exhibition of the artists Dani Negri and Constanza Hermosilla, linked by working on textiles, the community and the active participation of viewers. Dani works from the rescue of the memory of a time when community was established as a promise of social well-being and Constanza promotes experiences of people encounters based on a reflection on the contemporary city and its complexities.

It is this confluence that allows us to plot this local-global exercise that aims to generate an expanded field of textiles, where the artisanal, the conceptual, the architectural and the relational overlap and enhance beyond their specificities.

ABOUT

GALERÍA METROPOLITANA is an autonomous space for the production and dissemination of contemporary art located in Santiago de Chile, founded in June 1998 by Ana María Saavedra and Luis Alarcón, as an extension of their home. It is a project designed and activated from a territorial perspective, a basis that supports its work in the development of works of a contextual nature and sustained work in the construction of collaborative networks at a local, regional and global level. Since 2011, Galería Metropolitana has maintained a residence in Laguna Grande de San Pedro de la Paz, Biobío Region, southern Chile.

DANI NEGRI (Coquimbo, Chile, 1982) is a textile artist and researcher. She is interested in community practices and the relationship between individual memory and collective memory.

CONSTANZA HERMOSILLA (Concepción, Chile, 1987) is a visual artist and teacher. Her artistic work addresses the neoliberal city from a feminist perspective.