
- Paula de Solminihac, “Algoritmo #1” (Detail), 2013, Series: Corazón, Drawing on Canson conservation paper, 62.5 x 48.5 cm. Photo credit: Courtesy of the artist.
- Paula de Solminihac, “Algoritmo #1”, 2013, Series: Corazón, Drawing on Canson conservation paper, 62.5 x 48.5 cm. Photo credit: Courtesy of the artist.
- Paula de Solminihac, “Astrochemistry Hubble” (Detail), Series: Corazón, Digital photography Lambda print, die cutting cardboard, and digital photography Lambda print on metallic paper, 110 x 77 cm aprox, 50 x 50 cm each one. Photo credit: NRAO-Alma /foto Alma: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Equipo de Wise.
- Paula de Solminihac, “Astrochemistry Hubble”, Series: Corazón, Digital photography Lambda print, die cutting cardboard, and digital photography Lambda print on metallic paper, 110 x 77 cm aprox, 50 x 50 cm each one. Photo credit: NRAO-Alma /foto Alma: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Equipo de Wise.
- Paula de Solminihac, “Caja de Tizas / Falla Activa” (Detail), 2012, Series: Zona3, Raw clay in wooden and acrylic box, 48 x 40 x 30cm. Photo credit: Courtesy of the artist.
- Paula de Solminihac, “Caja de Tizas / Falla Activa”, 2012, Series: Zona3, Raw clay in wooden and acrylic box, 48 x 40 x 30cm. Photo credit: Courtesy of the artist.
- Paula de Solminihac, “Charco” (Detail), 2012, Series: Corazón, Black ceramic and digital photography Lambda print on metallic paper, 200 x 200 cm. Photo credit: NASA / JPL Caltech / equipo de Wise, Patricia Novoa.
- Paula de Solminihac, “Charco”, 2012, Series: Corazón, Black ceramic and digital photography Lambda print on metallic paper, 200 x 200 cm. Photo credit: NASA / JPL Caltech / equipo de Wise, Patricia Novoa.
- Paula de Solminihac, “Como se construye un Algoritmo” (Detail), 2013, Series: Corazón, Drawing on papero and cardboard, 120 x 80 cm. Photo credit: Courtesy of the artist.
- Paula de Solminihac, “Como se construye un Algoritmo”, 2013, Series: Corazón, Drawing on papero and cardboard, 120 x 80 cm. Photo credit: Courtesy of the artist.
- Paula de Solminihac, “Falla Activa #6”, 2012, Series: Zona3, Clay painting on clay, 60 x 60 cm. Photo credit: Courtesy of the artist.
- Paula de Solminihac, “Falla Activa #6” (Detail), 2012, Series: Zona3, Clay painting on clay, 60 x 60 cm. Photo credit: Courtesy of the artist.
- Paula de Solminihac, “Historia de todos los Puntos”, 2012, Series: Zona3, Drawing on blackboard, 130 x 90 cm. Photo credit: Courtesy of the artist.
- Paula de Solminihac, “Historia de todos los Puntos” (Detail), 2012, Series: Zona3, Drawing on blackboard, 130 x 90 cm. Photo credit: Courtesy of the artist.
- Paula de Solminihac, “In Absentia” (Detail), 2006, Die cut on digital photography Lambda print, edition of 5, 200 x 100 cm. Photo credit: Cristián Silva-Avária.
- Paula de Solminihac, “In Absentia”, 2006, Die cut on digital photography Lambda print, edition of 5, 200 x 100 cm. Photo credit: Cristián Silva-Avária.
- Paula de Solminihac, “Living” (Detail), 2004, Drawing and Spanish cardstock on wood, 130 x 90 cm. Photo credit: Cristián Silva-Avária.
- Paula de Solminihac, “Living”, 2004, Drawing and Spanish cardstock on wood, 130 x 90 cm. Photo credit: Cristián Silva-Avária.
- Paula de Solminihac, “Mandala #3” (Detail), 2012, Series: Zona3, Lettering clay on Wood, 60 x 68 cm. Photo credit: Courtesy of the artist.
- Paula de Solminihac, “Mandala #3”, 2012, Series: Zona3, Lettering clay on Wood, 60 x 68 cm. Photo credit: Courtesy of the artist.
- Paula de Solminihac, “Mandala #3”, 2012, Series: Zona3, Lettering clay on Wood, 60 x 68 cm. Photo credit: Courtesy of the artist.
- Paula de Solminihac, “Potencia Z3”, 2012, Series: Zona3, Clay painting on clay and clay chalks, 130 x 90 x 6 cm. Photo credit: Courtesy of the artist.
- Paula de Solminihac, “Potencia Z3” (Detail), 2012, Series: Zona3, Clay painting on clay and clay chalks, 130 x 90 x 6 cm. Photo credit: Courtesy of the artist.
- Paula de Solminihac, “Propagación de Ondas”, 2012, Series: Zona3, Drawing on blackboard, plywood and plaster, 50 x 50 cm. Photo credit: Courtesy of the artist.
- Paula de Solminihac, “Propagación de Ondas” (Detail), 2012, Series: Zona3, Drawing on blackboard, plywood and plaster, 50 x 50 cm. Photo credit: Courtesy of the artist.
- Paula de Solminihac, “Radios Blandos” (Detail), 2013, Series: Corazón, Ceramics and drawing on MDF, 50 x 50 X 5 cm. Photo credit: Courtesy of the artist.
- Paula de Solminihac, “Radios Blandos” (Detail), 2013, Series: Corazón, Ceramics and drawing on MDF, 50 x 50 X 5 cm. Photo credit: Courtesy of the artist.
- Paula de Solminihac, “Radios Blandos”, 2013, Series: Corazón, Ceramics and drawing on MDF, 50 x 50 X 5 cm. Photo credit: Courtesy of the artist.
- Paula de Solminihac, “Corona”, 2015, Clay, linnen and cardboard, 13 x 40 x 36 cm. Photo credit: Paula de Solminihac.
- Paula de Solminihac, “Archeological Matter”, 2015, Clay, linnen and cardboard, Variable dimensions. Photo credit: Paula de Solminihac.
- Paula de Solminihac, “Archeological Matter”, 2015, Clay, linnen and cardboard, Variable dimensions. Photo credit: Paula de Solminihac.
- Paula de Solminihac, “Archeological Matter”, 2015, Clay, linnen and cardboard, Variable dimensions. Photo credit: Paula de Solminihac.
- Paula de Solminihac, “Archeological Matter”, 2015, Clay, linnen and cardboard, 8 x 31 x 19 cm. Photo credit: Paula de Solminihac.
- Paula de Solminihac, “Alma with alignment discs”, 2014, Digital photo and tracing paper on board, 36 x 120 cm. Photo credit: Paula de Solminihac.
- Paula de Solminihac, “Hard Shell collar”, 2015, Necklace made of painted diary paper and linnen, 68 x 43 x 12 cm. Photo credit: Paula de Solminihac.
- Paula de Solminihac, “Hard shell collar”, 2015, Necklace made with painted newspaper diary and linnen, 68 x 43 x 12 cm. Photo credit: Paula de Solminihac.
- Paula de Solminihac, “Hard Shells Collar”, 2015, Necklace made of painted newspaper shells and linnen, 82 x 63 x 24 cm. Photo credit: Paula de Solminihac.
- Paula de Solminihac, “Diary Pages nº8”, 2015, Die cut paper and drawing, 60 x 40 cm. Photo credit: Paula de Solminihac.
- Paula de Solminihac, “Diary Pages n.6”, 2015, Die cut and drawing, 60 x 40 cm. Photo credit: Paula de Solminihac.
- Paula de Solminihac, “Diary Pages B”, 2015, die cut and drawing, 37 x 33 cm. Photo credit: Paula de Solminihac.
- Paula de Solminihac, “Diary Pages”, 2015, Die cut and drawing, Variable dimensions. Photo credit: Paula de Solminihac.
- Paula de Solminihac, “Diary Pages n.2”, 2015, Die cut and drawing, 60 x 40 cm. Photo credit: Paula de Solminihac.
- Paula de Solminihac, “Libros Fungi”, 2014, Terracota books, 15 x 60 x 20 cm. Photo credit: Paula de Solminihac.
- Paula de Solminihac, “Libros Fungi”, 2014, Terracota books, 15 x 60 x 20 cm. Photo credit: Paula de Solminihac.
- Paula de Solminihac, “Libros Nube”, 2014, Terracota books, 20 x 66 x 24 cm. Photo credit: Paula de Solminihac.
- Paula de Solminihac, “Libros Nube”, 2014, Terracota books, 20 x 66 x 24 cm. Photo credit: Paula de Solminihac.
- Paula de Solminihac, “Opus Nigrum”, 2015, Black clay and linnen, Variable dimensions. Photo credit: Paula de Solminihac.
- Paula de Solminihac, “Opus Nigrum”, 2015, Black clay and linnen, Variable dimensions. Photo credit: Paula de Solminihac.
- Paula de Solminihac, “Opus Nigrum”, 2015, Black clay and linnen, Variable dimensions. Photo credit: Paula de Solminihac.
- Paula de Solminihac, “Opus Nigrum”, 2015, Black clay and linnen, Variable dimensions. Photo credit: Paula de Solminihac.
- Paula de Solminihac, “Victoria”, 2015, Painted newspaper diary, 180 x 90 x 10 cm. Photo credit: Paula de Solminihac.
Translated from Spanish
My work consists on procedures that investigate the space between territory and language.
This space, which is the moment prior to the separation between the printer and the printed, is a moment of impossible visibility.
To be able to work on that impossibility, I have used strategies that range from the subjective to the objective, resorting to words and maps as working systems within that area, always showing the inaccuracy that happens in the translation of a subjective field or as a simple phenomenon itself.
Since work is defined through an action, it is difficult to settle in one material or formal support. Nevertheless, there is a repertoire that reiterates through time to build in that space where drawings, body actions on raw and baked clay, and photographs, articulate relationships between the experiential field and its archive.
Work is understood as an action, as mediation, as education, and regulation of the shapeless clay or of the dispersed dirt—just as the origin myths of pottery declare—to shape it in the form of a vessel that will contain the food, which after the digestive process will end up where it started, producing a never ending topology where there is no other option than to make again and again.
Mi trabajo son procedimientos que indagan el espacio entre territorio y lenguaje.
Ese espacio, que también es un momento antes de la separación entre lo impresor y lo impreso, es un momento de visibilidad imposible.
Para trabajar esa imposibilidad he utilizado estrategias que van de lo subjetivo a lo objetivo, recurriendo habitualmente a las palabras y los mapas como sistemas de trabajo al interior de esa zona, siempre evidenciando la inexactitud que sucede en la traducción de un campo subjetivo o como simple fenómeno en sí.
Dado que el trabajo se define en una acción, es difícil establecerse en un soporte material o formal, sin embargo existe un repertorio reiterado en el tiempo para construir en ese espacio en donde dibujos, acciones corporales sobre la arcilla cruda y cocida y fotografías van articulando relaciones entre el campo experiencial y su archivo.
El trabajo es entendido como acción, como mediación, como educación y regulación del barro informe o de la tierra dispersa en todos lados, como dicen los mitos de origen de la alfarería, para modelarla en la forma de una vasija que contendrá el alimento que al terminar su proceso de digestión terminará en el punto donde comenzó produciéndose un sinfín topológico en donde no queda más que volver a hacer una y otra vez.
Selected Biographical Information
Education / Training
- 2004: Master of Fine Arts, Universidad de Chile, Chile.
- 1999: BFA, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile.
Prizes / Fellowships
- 2014: Fondart, Minister of Culture, Santiago, Chile.
- 2013: CCA, Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.
- 2012: CCA, Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.
- 2008: CCA, Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.
- 2005: Fondart, Minister of Culture, Santiago, Chile.
- 2000: Identidades en Tránsito, Rockefeller Foundation, Asunción, Paraguay.
- 1999: Fondart, Minister of Culture, Santiago, Chile.
Solo Exhibitions
- 2015: “Hidden Names”, Galerie Dix9 Hélène Lacharmoise, Paris, France.
- 2012: Zona 3, Galeria Isabel Aninat, Santiago, Chile.
- 2012: Zona 2, “Trilogía de un Paisaje”, Sala Puntangeles, Valparaíso, Chile.
- 2011: Zona 1, Galería Yono, Santiago, Chile
- 2009: “Espejismos”, L390, Santiago, Chile.
- 2008: “Nadie Quiere Morir”, Galeria Isabel Aninat, Santiago, Chile.
- 2008: “Nadie Quiere Morir”, Universidad Uniacc, Santiago, Chile.
- 2006: “In Absentia”, CAV-Museo del Barro, Asunción, Paraguay.
- 2006: “FotoAmerica 2006”, Galeria Patricia Ready, Santiago, Chile.
- 2005: “Living 2004-2005”, Centro de Arte Cecilia Palma, Santiago, Chile..
- 2004: “Del azar en Conserva”, Galería Animal, Santiago, Chile.
- 2003: “Non- site”, Corporación Cultural Las Condes, Santiago, Chile.
- 2002: “Horizontal-vertical”, Galería Múltiple, Santiago, Chile.
Group Exhibitions
- 2015: “Siglo XXI-10 años de arte contemporáneo”, CA660, Santiago, Chile.
- 2015: “Ceramix”, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Holland.
- 2014: “YAP Constructo”, Parque Araucano, Santiago, Chile.
- 2013: “Pais Sonhado”, Memorial de América Latina, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
- 2012: “Desde la Bruma”, Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Santiago, Chile.
- 2012: “13 x 13 Nuevos Medios”, selección AICA, Santiago, Chile.
- 2011: “Habitar lo Biodiverso”, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile.
- 2010: “IV Bienal de Arte Contemporáneo de Beijing”, Beijing, China.
- 2010: “P.D. Post Data”, Galería 101, Universidad de Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.
- 2009: “Trienal de Chile”, Santiago, Chile.
- 2009: “Panorama Atual da Fotografía”, Valu Oria Galería de Arte, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
- 2009: “P.D. Post Data”, Centro de Extensión, PUC, Santiago, Chile.
- 2009: “Cohortes”, MAC Museo Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile.
- 2007: “Menu De Hoy: Arte y Alimento en Chile”, Museo sin Muros, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile.
- 2006: “Del Otro Lado, Arte de Mujeres en Chile”, Centro Cultural Palacio La Moneda, Santiago, Chile.
- 2005: “Re-locación”, Galería Isabel Aninat, Santiago Chile.
- 2002: “Sweet-suit”, Centro Cultural Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile.
Publications
- 2012, Memoria 01 Taller Nube. Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Santiago, Chile.
- 2012, Catálogo Desde la Bruma, páginas 28-31.
- 2012, Catálogo exposición Zona3 Galería Isabel Aninat, Santiago, Chile.
- 2011, Catálogos CeAC, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Las Condes UC. Entrevistas a curadores y edición general, Santiago, Chile.
- 2011, Habitar lo Biodiverso, catalogo exposición. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile.
- 2009, Trienal de Chile, Talleres Artes del Barro, páginas 471-475 , Santiago, Chile.
- 2006, Del Otro Lado, catálogo exposición. Centro Cultural Palacio La Moneda, Santiago, Chile.
- 2006, In Absentia, catálogo exposición. Galería de Arte Patricia Ready, Santiago, Chile.
Collections
- Sayago & Pardon, USA.
- Claudia Hakim, NYC, USA.
- Graeme Briggs, Bogota, Colombia.
- Graeme Briggs, Lima, Peru.
- Francisco Bauza, Santiago, Chile.
- Vinni Letteri, California, USA.
- Patricio de Grotte, Santiago, Chile.
- Maria Florencia Moro, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Maria Rosa Mascarenhas, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Juan Pablo Dagorret, Santiago Chile.
- Simon Subercaseaux, Santiago Chile.
- Emma Marin, Santiago Chile.