Constanza Valderrama
Constanza Valderrama
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Performance Grandmother # 3, (2021)
Archival Giclée print on a Hahnemüle Paper
40 x 60 cm
Edition of 10 + 2AP
About this work
Grandmother # 3 is part of a series of experimental works where the artist reflects on the idea of memory, printing the portrait of her deceased grandmother on different materials.
In this piece, the photograph is incarnated on an old tablecloth where texture, pattern, and composition interrupt and fade the portrait. Additionally, the image merges with the silhouette of the artist who holds it performatively, suggesting the fragile and diffuse presence of memories over time.
About Constanza Valderrama
Constanza Valderrama is a Chilean artist based in London. She was awarded a two-year scholarship by the Chilean National Research Council (CONICYT) to conduct research at the Royal College of Art, from which she recently graduated with a MA in Photography. She has been awarded the highest distinctions by the Royal College of Art, Universidad de Chile and by the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
Her understanding of photography as a material thing has allowed her to explore the properties with which photographic images intertwine, a process that she refers to as ‘photographic incarnations’. These are processes in which images and materials coalesce. Consequently, her work emphasises the uniqueness and unrepeatable quality of a photograph, even in a digital format. Through diverse material experimentations and dialogues between digital and analogue processes, Constanza’s practice questions the limits of conventional photographic intervention and it’s traditional approach to reproduction. Her work displays an articulation of ordinary and low-cost materials, laser prints, low-quality images, and everyday thematics. These choices allow her to create a reflective critique of societal elitism, which very often roams around art and photography.
Education
2018-2020 Royal College of Art, London, MA Photography
2012-2013 Universidad de Chile, MA in Visual Arts
2013 International Center of Photography, Lighting Certificate
2002-2006 P. Universidad Católica de Chile, BA in Fine Art
Awards
2018 -2020 Becas Chile Scholarship. Grant obtained by ANID for study MA in Photography at the Royal College of Art
Collaborations / Publications
2020. Last Look Graduated Photography Talents. American Vogue.
2020 Helen Hamlyn Yearbook.Royal College of Art.
2020. Graduate Photography Online 2020. Source Magazzine: Thinking Throught Photography
2020. Fall in to place. MA in Photography Book. Royal College of Art.
Selected Exhibitions
2021 2020: it´s Good To Be Home, Gallery FUMI, London
2020 London Grads Now, Saatchi Gallery, London
2020 with fists, it kicks, it bites, Tj Boulting Gallery, London
2020 RCA & Slade Graduate Show, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London
2020 RCA 2020 (online)
2020 El Pueblo Unido, Windows 187, London
2019 WIP Show, Royal College of Art, London
2015 Angstrom, Contemporary Art Museum, Valdivia
2014 Angstrom, Galería D21, Santiago
2012 Ejercicio de Taller, Factoría Italia, Santiago
2011 Una Carga de lavado, Centro Cultural de España, Santiago
2009 On the Rooftop, ANIMAL Gallery, Santiago
2019 Cruces, Contemporary Art Museum, Valdivia
2009 Las Marías: 0 x 10 x 1000UNIACC Gallery, Santiago
2007 Umbrales. White Gallery, P. Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago
2007 Metropolitan encounter of the Visual Arts. Centro de Exposiciones Apoquindo 3300, Santiago.