Abstraction in Action
Paula de Solminihac https://abstractioninaction.com/artists/paula-de-solminihac/
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.