Christiane Pooley
Christiane Pooley's work focuses on the possibilities and limitations of painting itself, reflecting especially on the space that exists between objects and images. Her research questions the ways in which we construct what we cannot fully perceive.
Through observations, personal records and transformations, the artist brings this issues to constructed images, which stress the relationship between memory and the account of what is observed.
In this way, each painting is a laboratory, it is generated thanks to a work of reflective composition, which seeks find what structures operate in the perception we have of reality.
How Many Years Can a Mountain Exist, Before it is Washed to the Sea
The pictorial work carried out by Christiane Pooley from her experience in Plataforma Atacama consisted of constructing an image from the observation of landscape.
This was the result of a photographic registration process carried out by the artist, who spent five days at Hornitos beach, a cliff facing the sea in the Atacama desert.
With this documentation, the artist then made collages that make up the image that was later taken to painting. This piece took part in the exhibition curated by Paula Alzugaray A Invenção da praia, at Paço das Artes, São Paulo, held between April 22 and June 22, 2014.
Bio
Christiane Pooley was born in Temuco, Chile, in 1983 and lives in Paris. She has a Bachelor of Art from the Universidad Católica de Chile and a Postgraduate Degree in Art from Chelsea College of Arts, London.
She has exhibited internationally in solo shows, including: The Edges of the World, Patricia Ready Gallery, Santiago (2015); Promised Lands, Sandnes Kunstforening, Norway (2015); On Belief, Solo project in Summa, Matadero, Madrid (2013); Inside Out, Galerie Esther Donatz, Munich (2012); Caught in the unknown, the Patricia Ready Gallery, Santiago (2010) and also I also ask myself, New Galerie de France, Paris (2008).
Her group exhibitions include places like Paço das Artes, São Paulo; MAC Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago; Arsenale di Venezia, Venice; Fiac, Paris, The Art Gallery, London, among others. Her work is part of it is part of international collections, such as the Inelcom Madrid Collection and the University of the Arts in London Collection.
She was a resident artist at the Plataforma Atacama, Chile, in 2014; Kinokino, Norway in 2013 and Camac, France in 2012. She was awarded a Unesco-Aschberg scholarship for artists and completed a Museum Internship at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice.
