Artists
Chile
Teresita Jimenez
Divine Presence
05.03.18 28.03.18
Teresita Jiménez is an artist whose work involves geometric compositions from photographs of different textures of nature that she takes. Contemplation, as an encounter and as meditation, is an important part of her process, an aspect that can be clearly observed in her precious compositions. During the residency at ´ace she has acquired the photolithographic technique, which allowed her to intervene and add new layers, depths and presences to the photos, new encounters with nature.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Walter Benjamin says that “photography allows us to see and understand more of the world around us”. The camera is used as a tool to observe, select and capture images of elements of nature, trying not only to capture the visible qualities manifested in it, such as the theme of color and texture –two contents that will be important in the composition of the work–, but also seeks to cover the theme of Nature as an element worthy of contemplation. Nature understood as Divine Creation, work of God. On the other hand, the concept of perception enters the game through a visual effect, where an invitation to meditation is made through the recognition, interpretation and meaning that is carried out from the observation of an image created with elements of the natural world.
BIO
Teresita Jimenez
1992 | Santiago de Chile, Chile
EDUCATION
2017 | Program of Pedagogy of Middle Education for Graduates, University of the Andes, Chile
2016 | Visual Arts, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Related Activities
´aceNITE
Reflections
Artists in Dialogue
21.03.18
Reflejos was an event that combined the opening of the exhibition Divina Presencia by artist in residence Teresita Jiménez (Chile) and the Open Studios of Dolores Delia (Arg.), Esperanza Grez (Chile) and artists from the collective residency [Espacio en Blanco] 2.
As it usually happens in each residence period, ties and coincidences were generated beyond what we expected. The three artists in residence developed artwork in the photolithographic technique for the first time and the interests behind their work had many correlations, as the route of the Cordillera de los Andes, the contact between Argentina and Chile and the connection of man and nature as well as the connection human-city.
The artists in [Espacio en Blanco]2 worked on individual projects but we could say that the reflection about the routes through the city, the ways of recording the paths, the memory and inheritance was given at a general level. They worked in varied media, from artist’s book, intervention with illustration in the house of ´ace, photography, performance, video, sound art, installation and textile art.
Related artists
EXHIBITION
Teresita Jiménez (Chile)
OPEN STUDIO
Dolores Delia (Argentina)
Esperanza Grez (Chile)
[BLANK SPACE] 2
Gugui Cebey
Elías Leiro
Agustina Mazzocco
Belen Santamarina
Marisa Schmidt
Juani Serrovalle
Clara Steinhardt
Victoria Piemonte