Francisca Garriga
Bio
Francisca Garriga (1988)
Vina del Mar, Chile
Francisca Garriga studied Visual Arts at the Finis Terrae University. With a major in painting, he later specialized in drawing and lighting. In recent years she has held individual and group exhibitions, including “A new world”, Chilean chapter of the National museum of women in the Arts at the Museo de la Mujer, Santiago, Chile (2023); Vol.1 De Geometry collective, first individual exhibition of the collective (2022) at Galería Artespacio; Blanco, second individual exhibition (2021) at Galería Artespacio; the Young Art competition of the Museum of Visual Arts (2020); Choreographies of Light and Color, CAMM, Puerto Varas, Chile; Paisaje Transitorio, first individual exhibition, (2018) at Galería Artespacio; Collective exhibition, II Critics x II Artists, Viña del Mar room; its participation in the SP-ARTE Fair (2021), Pinta Miami (2019); Ch.Aco (2018) and Art Lima (2017), the group exhibition Neofiguración (2016) at Galería Artespacio. That same year she was the winner of first place in the BBVA award.
Statement
statement
The work of Francisca Garriga is part of the long modern tradition of Op art, in this way, her work is characterized by the exploration of patterns, colors, lights and shadows, creating optical illusions that call into question the authority of the eye. Thus, through a sophisticated geometric abstraction, which combines both chromatic tensions and illusions of perspective, his works seek to generate perceptual responses that confuse the eye.
Text of works
I have focused on the circle and the square, whose simplicity, along with revealing its resounding perfection, brings us closer to a poetic factor that arises from that perfect world that is geometry. The amplitude of this world is reduced, in these two forms, obtaining a result that builds a tension and a dialogue, in which circle and square show their kinship with the line and seem to aspire to overflow their two-dimensionality to transform into volume.
