Chilean artist Sandra Vásquez de la Horra returns to Galeria SENDA to present Aura.

In this exhibition, the artist introduces us to the complex universe of theosophy, which explores the link between the aura and human nature. Through a multiplicity of techniques that range from three-dimensional pieces, charcoal, watercolor and wax; Vásquez de la Horra traces bodies that she conceives as geographic entities, endowing them with labyrinths, landscapes, and mountain ranges. These bodies, now territories, are divided into two planes, the physical-earthly and the mystical.

In the physical aspect, there is a political burden of resistance of the people against the Chilean dictatorship; and in the mystical aspect, the artist takes the concept of the seven planes or chakras to dialogue in unison between the universe and the earth. This is how the bodies captured on paper dipped in wax become thresholds that lie waiting for the energy cosmic. An energy that expands and travels through the soul and its many emotional facets to give life to what we call Aura.

 

BIO

Sandra Vásquez de la Horra graduated from the University of Design of Viña del Mar. She continued her studies at the Kunstakademie of Düsseldorf being a disciple of Jannis Kounellis and Rosemarie Trockel. Her work has been exhibited at the Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht, the Pompidou Center in Paris, the Kunst Palast Museum in Düsseldorf and the Albertina Museum in Vienna. In 2009 she won the Contemporary Drawing Prize awarded by the Guerlain Foundation in Paris. In 2012 Vásquez de la Horra participated in The Imminence of Poetics at the São Paulo Biennial. His work can be found in important public collections such as the MOMA in New York, The Art Institute of Chicago, the Pompidou Museum in Paris, the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, the Kunst Palast Museum in Düsseldorf, and The National Gallery of Victoria in Australia. among other. Sandra Vásquez de la Horra currently lives and works in Berlin.

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