Karen Pazán (1975) is an Ecuadorian visual artist, with Colombian nationality and based in Chile more than twenty years ago. Bachelor of Art from the Universidad de Chile, diploma in Project Design for Culture at the Universidad Católica de La Santísima Concepción.
With a lot of experience in the world of art, Karen has managed to develop one of the most forceful and organic discourses around themes linked to the intersections between cultures, displacements, and migrations throughout history, focusing on the relationship given between European and Latin American culture. Her work nourishes of different media, including photography, collage, object art and sculpture.
The “Hábito de memoria” series is part of the collection of the Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) and the Museo de Arte de las Américas, as well as private collections in Chile and the United States. The photographic series through various techniques including analog and digital painting shows us, in an elegant and forceful result, indigenous people from different parts of Latin America wearing high culture costumes taken from the history of European fashion. Observing the work, it is possible to imagine the artist in the task of putting on a suit designed for the European elite on an indigenous body that appreciates nudity. That crossing of times, that cultural shock, the effort until it fits opens the encounter and the question about what Latin American is.
Artworks
CV
2007
→ Hábito de Memoria: Galería AFA. Santiago, Chile
2012
→ Inaudita: Sala de Arte de la UNIACC, Santiago de Chile.
2019
→ El Cuerpo de lo Sagrado: Sala de Arte de la Universidad Mayor de Temuco, Chile.
2004
→ “Continente” Centro de Extensión de la Pontificia Universidad Católica. Santiago, Chile
2005
→ “Como Agua Me Disuelvo” Sala Juan Egenau, Santiago Chile
→ “Emergency: Experiencia Sonora desde la Visualidad Artística” Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
2006
→ “Un Pequeño Adorno Hace Elegante” Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile.
2007-2008
→ “Heme aquí en cuerpo y sin voz” Sala de Arte del Mall Plaza Vespucio Santiago, Chile. Sala de Arte Mall Plaza Trébol en Concepción, Chile.
2008
→ “ARTEBA” Espacio de Galería AFA, Buenos Aires Argentina.
→ “Belong Here” Centro Cultural de España, Santiago, Chile.
→ “Rencontres fortuites” Embajada de Francia, Santiago de Chile.
2009
→ “Metamujer” Galería AMS Marlborough, Santiago, Chile.
2011
→ “Proyecto Continumm” Centro Cultural Kavlin. Punta del Este, Uruguay.
2012
→ “Proyecto Continumm” Centro Cultural Estación Mapocho, Santiago de Chile.
→ “Residencia” Museo de Arte Moderno de Chiloé, Chile.
2015
→ “Beca Migrante” Universidad Santiago, Chile.
→ “Vestema, En la mañana mi alma” Galería Gabriela Mistral, Santiago de Chile.
2016
→ “Beca Migrante” Universidad Santiago ,Chile.
2017
→ “II Bienal del Sur, Pueblos en Resistencia” Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Caracas, Venezuela.
→ “Donde se Curva el Horizonte: Artistas migrantes en Chile” Centro Cultural de España, Santiago,Chile.
2018
→ “Erosiona vez: Exposición Tripartita” Opendark Art Santiago de Chile.
→ “Metalmorfosis”, capítulo chileno del National Museum of Woman in the Arts NMWA de Washington DC. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
→ “Ruta Natual: Salón Chile. IV Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Argentina”, Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2020
→ “El Cuerpo de lo Sagrado: “Otra Feria”, Espacio Cubo, internacional y virtual.
→ “El Cuerpo de lo Sagrado: Galería Virtual de Arte Latinoamericano” Quarentena Galería. Chile