Chile’s National Museum of Fine Arts (MNBA) is going to inaugurate, on January 15, at 7:30 pm, Klaudia Kemper’s solo show that takes the exhibition space as a body and proposes a tour around twenty-two years of creation.
Within five halls of the MNBA’s south side, Kemper (Rio de Janeiro, 1966) will be displaying what has been described as one of the most remarkable and vast exhibitions on her career. Immersion narrates her artistic life, marked by experimentation and self-references. On this matter, she has commented: “I speak from myself because I don’t know to do it from other point of view; I don’t have the creativity of a writer or a fiction scriptwriter, who can create characters. This plot is built with my experiences and it is finally materialized through a series of paintings, video installation or an object.”
The exhibition tour kicks off at the museum’s hall 1, with pictures, printings and videos that represent vital functions. Halls 2 and 4 emulate the head, mouth and eyes with video installations; while hall 3 is the symbol of legs and screens a video-trip installation. The tour comes to an end at hall 5, a metaphor of hands, handicrafts, where paintings are showcased.
Kemper, was born in Brazil and lived in Chile since she was 10 years old, and has taken an unconventional style. She got her degree in Graphic Design at Chile’s Catholic University, and took several courses that encouraged her to explore different formats, thus articulating a hard-to-class work.
Immersion, open through March 24, represents a retrospective with special features, since it includes several new works based on past materials, such as hours of video footage, notebooks and trip notes. The exhibition is joined by the presentation of a bilingual compiling volume on her recent productions –some of them are unpublished–, with texts written by acclaimed Latin American theoreticians.
National Museum of Fine Arts
Parque Forestal S/N, metro Bellas Artes
Source: Press release
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