Description

Catalogue of the exhibition Voluspa Jarpa. In our small region here , presented at Malba between July 15 and October 2, 2016.

Since her first exhibitions in the 1990s, Voluspa Jarpa (Rancagua, Chile, 1971) has been interested in history, psychoanalysis, archives, and, in general, the relationship between art and politics, especially within the Latin American context. The idea to co-publish this volume, which comprehensively reviews her career, arose from the exhibition she presented at Malba and Centro Matucana.

The book reproduces a wide selection of photographs representative of Jarpa's work in gallery views from her various exhibitions. It also includes three important texts: an extensive conversation between the artist and Agustín Pérez Rubio; an essay by the English curator and writer Charles Esche, which analyzes the political and critical scope of her work; and an original conceptual glossary of her work compiled by the Chilean curator Alexia Tala. Produced with the support of the Chilean National Fund for Cultural Development and the Arts (FONDART), this collaborative publication is an essential reference work on Voluspa Jarpa.

“Given the lack of collective reaction to Operation Condor in Chilean and South American politics, it makes sense for Jarpa to ask to what extent the geographical hegemony of modern art has changed in the contemporary period. The only way to change it more significantly and to reclaim that space, as a Chilean woman, to be seen as an equal, lies not only in finding a path to inclusion, but above all in forging a hammer to break the very power systems of modernism, and thus rewrite the history of art and the colonial matrix of power on their own terms.” — Charles Esche

Authors
Agustín Pérez Rubio
Charles Esche
Alexia Tala

Technical specifications
Published by: Matucana Cien Cultural Corporation, Malba
Year: 2018
Type: Exhibition catalog
Binding: Paperback
Dimensions: 25 x 18 cm
Weight: 1 kg
Language: Bilingual - Spanish / English
Pages: 298
ISBN: 978-956-09006-1-6