The exhibition “Lo que vi Chili, 1973-2022” in Association NOEMI - Espace Brownstone
The Association NOEMI - Espace Brownstone presented “LO QUE VI CHILI 1973–2022”, a poignant exhibition by Paz Corona, a Franco-Chilean artist, reflecting on the history of Chile through a poetic and deeply personal lens.
The show features three video works and an installation of 1,500 ceramic flowers, inspired by Monet’s Nymphéas and the rare bloom of Chile’s Atacama Desert. Together, the works create a powerful metaphor for memory, time, and political resistance.
Corona, who fled Chile as a child after the 1973 coup, intertwines her own story with Chile’s broader political narrative. One video juxtaposes archival and contemporary images of state violence, highlighting tragic historical repetitions. Another captures a desert performance where the artist draws an infinity symbol, honoring the disappeared victims of the dictatorship. The third, filmed in Greece, meditates on exile and democratic hope.
The show features three video works and an installation of 1,500 ceramic flowers, inspired by Monet’s Nymphéas and the rare bloom of Chile’s Atacama Desert. Together, the works create a powerful metaphor for memory, time, and political resistance.
Corona, who fled Chile as a child after the 1973 coup, intertwines her own story with Chile’s broader political narrative. One video juxtaposes archival and contemporary images of state violence, highlighting tragic historical repetitions. Another captures a desert performance where the artist draws an infinity symbol, honoring the disappeared victims of the dictatorship. The third, filmed in Greece, meditates on exile and democratic hope.
Paz Corona
Franco-Chilean artist
Paz Corona (b. 1968, Santiago de Chile) is a Chilean-born, Paris-based artist and psychoanalyst whose multimedia practice—spanning painting, performance, and installation—explores memory, erasure, and the intertwining of personal and political histories. Her contemplative works often evoke themes of absence and identity, such as her infinity-loop video in Chile’s Atacama Desert mourning those disappeared under Pinochet, and her solo exhibitions at Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire and the Invisible Dog Art Center showcase her engagement with loss and truth as both emotional and structural constructs .
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