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Work Title
Tigres Prestidigitadores
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Work Title（EN)
Conjuror Tigers
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Please describe the concept of your artwork in 1000 words.
Prestidigitation is the art of making objects or people appear and disappear with your hands. According to this definition, everything -including history- that one constructs and destroys manually without others seeing the process could be understood as such. This idea led me to think of local examples. According to Peruvian historians (and Chileans too), the bronze lions located in the Providencia commune, in Santiago, are war trophies from the Pacific War. However, another version is that the Lyon family from Chile donated the lions to the city.
For "Conjuror Tigers" I registered how I symbolically took the lion sculptures, removed them and gave them back to peruvians after flying to Lima. I produced this project during October, 2019 during Chilean revolts to change our Constitution, created during the Pinochet dictatorship. Altering public sculptures has been a way of editing history here and in other countries that are living a similar process of revealing against imposed politics. -
Please describe the concept of your artwork in 1000 words. （EN）
Prestidigitation is the art of making objects or people appear and disappear with your hands. According to this definition, everything -including history- that one constructs and destroys manually without others seeing the process could be understood as such. This idea led me to think of local examples. According to Peruvian historians (and Chileans too), the bronze lions located in the Providencia commune, in Santiago, are war trophies from the Pacific War. However, another version is that the Lyon family from Chile donated the lions to the city.
For "Conjuror Tigers" I registered how I symbolically took the lion sculptures, removed them and gave them back to peruvians after flying to Lima. I produced this project during October, 2019 during Chilean revolts to change our Constitution, created during the Pinochet dictatorship. Altering public sculptures has been a way of editing history here and in other countries that are living a similar process of revealing against imposed politics. -
Work Specification
Video: 15:07 min.
Installation: Materials: Fake leather and stuffing
Size: 4 mts high (aprox.) -
Work Specification（EN）
Video: 15:07 min.
Installation: Materials: Fake leather and stuffing
Size: 4 mts high (aprox.) -
Media CoverageURL
https://pilarquinteros.com/2020/05/08/tigres-prestidigitadores-2019/
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Video URL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_4z0d-Yis4&t=120s&ab_channel=PilarQuinteros
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Your OfficialURL (Website, Instagram, Facebook)
https://pilarquinteros.com/
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Your Profile
Pilar Quinteros, 1988, Santiago, Chile. Vive y trabaja entre Santiago (Chile) y Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Licenciada en Arte de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2011). Ganadora de la Beca AMA 2018 para una residencia de tres meses en Gasworks, Londres; mención honrosa en la 31º Bienal de Artes Gráficas de Liubliana, Eslovenia; finalista de Future Generation Art Prize 2014 (PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ucrania); tercer lugar de Beca de Arte CCU 2013 (Santiago, Chile) y ganadora de la beca Jean-Claude Reynal 2012 (Fundación de Francia y Escuela de Bellas Artes de Bordeaux).
Ha exhibido su trabajo en lugares como 34º MDG Film Festival (Mar del Plata, Argentina, 2019); 2017 California-Pacific Triennial – Building as Ever (Newport Beach, California, USA); 32o Bienal de São Paulo – Incerteza Viva (São Paulo – Brasil); 31o Bienal de Artes Gráficas – Over You-You (Liubliana, Eslovenia); PinchukArtCentre (Kiev, Ucrania, 2014); Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (11o Bienal de Artes Mediales, Santiago, Chile, 2013) y Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Santiago, Chile, 2010). -
Team Members
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Entrant’s location (Where do you live?)
Santiago, Chile
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Prestidigitation is the art of making objects or people appear and disappear with your hands. According to this definition, everything -including history- that one constructs and destroys manually without others seeing the process could be understood as such. This idea led me to think of local examples. According to Peruvian historians (and Chileans too), the bronze lions located in the Providencia commune, in Santiago, are war trophies from the Pacific War. However, another version is that the Lyon family from Chile donated the lions to the city.
For "Conjuror Tigers" I registered how I symbolically took the lion sculptures, removed them and gave them back to peruvians after flying to Lima. I produced this project during October, 2019 during Chilean revolts to change our Constitution, created during the Pinochet dictatorship. Altering public sculptures has been a way of editing history here and in other countries that are living a similar process of revealing against imposed politics.
For "Conjuror Tigers" I registered how I symbolically took the lion sculptures, removed them and gave them back to peruvians after flying to Lima. I produced this project during October, 2019 during Chilean revolts to change our Constitution, created during the Pinochet dictatorship. Altering public sculptures has been a way of editing history here and in other countries that are living a similar process of revealing against imposed politics.
