SANDRA VÁSQUEZ DE LA HORRA AT LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA
23 Apr - 27 Nov 2022
Sandra Vásquez de la Horra (1967, Chile) participates in this year's Venice Biennale curated by Cecilia Alemani.
'The Milk of Dreams', the title of the Exhibition, takes the name from a book by Leonora Carrington (1917-2011), “in which the Surrealist artist describes a magical world where life is constantly re-envisioned through the prism of the imagination. It is a world where everyone can change, be transformed, become someone else”, declared the Italian curator Cecilia Alemani.
Drawing from the ancestral imaginary, the Chilean artist has created a body of work to immerse us in her extraordinary universe titled 'Las Cordilleras Encontradas'.
Exploring further with colour and three-dimensionality, Vásquez de la Horra draws on her own personal story and experiences to capture the fundamental metaphors of the everyday life: borderline experiences, femininity, fear and death, as well as poetry, the uncanny, religion and politics.
The 59th edition is center on three thematic areas: the representation of bodies and their metamorphoses; the relationship between individuals and technologies; the connection between bodies and the Earth. And it takes place in the Central Pavilion (Giardini) and in the Arsenale from April 23 to November 27 of 2022.