Virginia Guilisasti Chilean, b. 1979
Her work addresses themes related to the domestic and intimate spaces of the home. Virginia explores abandoned or ruined places and collects various materials, which she then categorizes to create structures or compositions using different two-dimensional techniques.
The visual artist Virginia Guilisasti was born in Chillán in 1979. She has a degree in Art with a major in Painting from the Finis Terrae University and a Masters in Visual Arts from the University of Chile.
She has exhibited in places such as the National Museum of Fine Arts (Santiago, Chile), Salta Museum of Contemporary Art (Salta, Argentina), Matta Cultural Center (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Matucana 100 Cultural Center (Santiago, Chile), Museum of Contemporary Art (Santiago, Chile). ), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Valdivia, Chile), Galería Multinacional (Quito, Ecuador), Festival de Artes Villar de los Barrios (Pontferrada, Spain), Sala de Arte CCU (Santiago, Chile), Centex (Valparaíso, Chile), Galería Espacio O (Santiago, Chile), among others.
Within her improvement activities, she participated in the Taller Bloc residency (2009 Santiago, Chile) and in the Línea Imaginaria program (2015 Quito, Ecuador).
The artist lives and works in Matanzas, Chile.
My work addresses themes related to the everyday; I make visible realities and topics that may seem to lack value and are related to our delicate domestic life; the house, the home, migration, rural life, precariousness and loss, parenting, among others.
My working methodology leads me to explore various techniques such as drawing, installation, photography, painting, video, textiles, among others.
I investigate abandoned spaces, specifically houses, and select discarded materials; remnants of insignificant things that tell their existence. I collect, then classify to build structures that manifest their resilient state.
Out of time
Virginia Guilisasti28 Nov 2024 - 28 Feb 2025In general, daily existence is not presented to us as a free and original construction, but rather it is based on a set of acts, displacements and recurrent forgetfulness that...Read moreParcelas de agrado
Group Exhibition 17 Nov - 31 Dec 2023En un contexto en el que las parcelas de agrado son consideradas como un espacio para ejercer el derecho al ocio y el descanso, los artistas que participan en esta...Read moreSerendipia
Group exhibition19 Aug - 30 Sep 2023The term 'serendipity' encompasses the notion of a fortunate and unexpected discovery when being in the right place at the right time. This exhibition celebrates these moments of visual serendipity,...Read moreComenzar con una idea
Group Exhibition15 Apr - 10 Jun 2023Espacio O Gallery is embarking on a new phase with a new space in the neighborhood where it was born, the Lastarria Neighborhood. The exhibition with which they are inaugurating...Read moreIntemperancia
Group Exhibition11 - 30 Nov 2021Artistas de la muestra colectiva: Alfredo Da Venezia, Bruna Truffa, Sebastián Leyton, Virginia Guilisasti, Colectivo Hipermercado Casino, Victor Espinoza y Fernanda Gutiérrez. ¿Cuántas veces sentimos que con un poco más...Read moreTodo tiempo pasado fue
Group Exhibition30 Sep - 3 Oct 2021Artistas de la muestra colectiva: Norton Maza, Alfredo Da Venezia, Bruna Truffa, Sebastián Leyton, Virginia Guilisasti, Colectivo Hipermercado Casino, Ciro Beltrán, Armando de la Garza y Fernanda Gutiérrez. En un...Read more
Ch.ACO '13
Santiago, Chile16 - 20 Nov 2022Galería Espacio O participa en la versión número 13 de la feria Ch.ACO en Santiago, Chile. Ch.ACO-13, la Feria de Arte Contemporáneo más grande de...Read more
Ch.ACO '12
Santiago, Chile22 - 28 Nov 2021La 12ºedición de la feria Ch.ACO contó este año con diferentes secciones de formato presencial y virtual, bajo el lema Sin Límites SECCIÓN MAIN: Sección...Read more