Consuelo Walker
Bio
Consuelo Walker (Santiago 1985) She has a degree in Visual Arts from the Universidad Católica de Chile. In 2008 he carried out an academic exchange at the University of Porto, Portugal; where he worked the techniques of sculpture in stone and stained glass. In 2009 he studied a Master in Cultural Management at the University of Chile. She worked in workshop 99 and at the same time she developed as a professor of engraving in her private workshop and at the Universidad del Desarrollo Chile. His artistic work was taking shape until it was framed in textile art; where he works on the concepts of accumulation and excess, shaping sensory installations that speak of pleasure and pain. With four solo exhibitions in his career, the second at Madhaus Gallery, where he won the award for the best artistic project of 2017 from ED magazine. In addition, it has several group exhibitions, among which are: two (2012-2018) in the National Museum of Fine Arts Chile, in the Museum of Contemporary Art Chile (2013) and three years (2015, 2016 and 2017) in the Young Art Contest at the Museum of Visual Arts Chile. In 2018 he won the “Business for art offer Artmajeur” Arte Laguna Prize, Venice, Italy. In 2019 he participated in the Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art in Madrid, Spain. In 2020 he won second prize in the young art contest of the Artespacio Gallery, Chile.
Statement
My work has its origins in the home. My interests lie in the resignification of simple objects —like the ones you might find in your home’s sewing kit— because they are loaded with memories able to transport you into the intimacy of daily life. I gather objects such as safety pins, sewing needles, measuring tapes and scissors one by one, weaving a new fabric from them. These traditional materials harbor a new meaning by working with them in their accumulation and excess, where its importance transcends the object’s materiality in the aim to —by their cluster— weave something anew.
