Valeria Zalaquett
Born
Valeria Francisca Zalaquett Fuentealba

(1971-11-27) 27 November 1971 (age 52)
Santiago, Chile
Alma materPompeu Fabra University
OccupationPhotographer
AwardsAPES [es] Award (1997)

Valeria Francisca Zalaquett Fuentealba (born 27 November 1971) is a Chilean photographer and portraitist who has worked mainly in contemporary and digital art.[1][2][3]

Biography

Valeria Zalaquett has a degree in philosophy from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, an institution where she also took courses in photography and filmmaking. In addition, she complemented her training with a master's degree in Digital Arts at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.[1]

In her work, a fusion between photography and visual arts can be seen through photomontage[4] and the use of black and white photography "through compositions that interlace different strata of shapes and textures, picking up the new technological resources to translate a language of their own."[1] According to art critic Waldemar Sommer, Zalaquett "uses photography as painting."[5] In particular, it has been observed that her signature "has been the mixture of images, reaching a point where these seem more like paintings. Her photos intervene digitally, as if they were layers of paintings."[3]

Group exhibitions

Zalaquett has participated in group exhibitions at the ArteBA in Buenos Aires (2008),[6] Digital Media Festival in Toronto (2011), in Water at the Amsterdam Photography Biennale (2004), Paisaje, Figura Humana, Bodegón: Una revisión a la Fotografía Chilena Contemporánea at the Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts (2006), and Video "8 tries, Parrilla at the Centro Cultural Matucana 100 (2005).[1][7]

Awards

In 1997 she received the APES [es] Award for her work in lighting design for Sexo, Drogas y Rock & Roll.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Valeria Zalaquett" (in Spanish). Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
  2. ^ "Fotopoética de la ensoñación: Las nuevas imágenes de Valeria Zalaquett" [Photopoetics of Reverie: The New Images of Valeria Zalaquett]. El Mercurio (in Spanish). 15 October 2006. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
  3. ^ a b Silva Cubillos, Jimena (29 August 2009). "Entre dos realidades" [Between Two Realities]. El Mercurio (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 November 2018.
  4. ^ Espinoza A., Denisse (19 December 2010). "Valeria Zalaquett: cuando la fotografía se rinde ante la pintura" [Valeria Zalaquett: When Photography Surrenders to Painting]. La Tercera (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 22 December 2010. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
  5. ^ Sommer, Waldemar (2 January 2011). "Final de año en Vitacura" [End of the Year in Vitacura]. El Mercurio (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 November 2018.
  6. ^ "Reveladora" [Revealer]. Revista Capital (in Spanish). 10 December 2009. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
  7. ^ Fonseca, Mario (8 October 2005). "Pantalla nerviosa" [Nervous Screen]. El Mercurio (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 November 2018.

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