Nicolás Sánchez is entrelaspiedras, capitalism & melancholy

Born in 1981 in Santiago, Chile
Lives and works in London, UK

18th century Romanticism rises as a response to the monsters of rationalism whose liberation utopias exist until today, only as unaccomplished promises. Under a sombre future I bear an audiovisual investigation that mixes landscape intervention and performance, updating that romantic loss feeling with a breeze of despair, melancholy, anger, hope.

Studies

2007-2008, Master degree in Public Art, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, España
2000-2004, Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, Pontificia Universidad Católica, Chile

Recent shows & exhibitions

2012 March, Nuevas Realidades Video Políticas, Video Art Festival, Europa & South America itinerancy
2012 January, BVAM X, 10° Bienal de Video y Artes Mediales, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago
2011 July, Short Voyage, 98WEEKS Project Space, Beirut, Libano
2011 March (bi-personal), Microutopías, Galería Gabriela Mistral, Santiago
2010 August, SCL2110, MAC Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile
2010 June, Ikas Art, BEC, Bilbao, Spain
2010 April, Théâvida Latin American Video Festival, Espace Kawenga, Montpellier, France
2009 August, BVAM 9° Video & Media Arts Biennial, MAC Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile
2008 December, BAC Festival 2008, La Santa, Barcelona, Spain
2008 October, Public Art, Public University, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
2008 September, Parasite Residence, MeetFactory Gallery, Praga, Czech Republic
2008 August, Start Point 2008, Klatovy / Klenova Gallery, Praga, Czech Republic
2006 December, Periférica Internationl Art Fair, Borges Cultural Centre, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2006 October, DEFORMES 1° Performance Biennial, MAC Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile
2006 October, Spam_City, MAC Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile
2006 September, Globalization original matrix, MAC Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile
2006 March, Paximobile Project, Matucana 100 Cultural Centre, Santiago, Chile
2005 August (solo show), Surface, Galería Metropolitana, Santiago, Chile
2005 July (solo show), Empty spaces, Galería BECH, Santiago, Chile

Awards, scholarships, workshops

2009 September, Juan Downey Award for video creation
2008 April, Workshop with Isidoro Valcárcel Medina
2008 April, Workshop with Christian Boltanski
2007 October, Fondart Scholarship (Chilean Government award for international postgraduate studies)
2007 October, Workshop “Atacama Lab 2007” with artists and academics of Austin, Texas University
2006 November, Workshop with Tomás Saraceno

Contact

Feel free to write to me at entrelaspiedras [@] gmail.com