Andrea Avendaño
Microresidencia-Avendaño

Andrea Avendaño works in the USA and in Chile with high-risk population in the education area. She is in charge of creating study plans where art is used as a tool of social insertion. As a researcher, she leads projects where contemporary art is the changing point of school communities, in urban and rural areas.

ABOUT THE PROJECT

Museum of Nothing is a project that links contemporary and educational art. It has taken base in other ways of seeing and making. It takes some tools from agraph cultures, where ideas are not written and instead, images structure the project.

Museum of Nothing consists of poetry, words as drawings, drawings as words, that has been defined in different ways: as an alliance, as family, or simply as the same thing. Word as an extension of a line that generates images, and drawing as lines that generates words and poetry.

Being at this residency was a precise and fertile experience for this project. Although the Museum of Nothing bases in drawing as an experience, it has an accomplice that is always present: silence. And being able to focus for a week in this wonderful place, allowed the silence to take life together with my days of great creativity, in an intimate conversation.

“The need of knowing the world through words makes us neurotics, in the same way of chaman and poet. We are the children of ourselves, and our children of an unfinished chain of apprentices that will never know what the world is because they can’t name it” José Eduardo Eielson.

Her work was published in the magazine of artistic research Panambí