We are delighted to share that our student, Valentina Gajardo, has been awarded with two fundings from the Chilean Government!
These grants have been awarded to support her MPhil in Latin American Studies at CLAS and for the publication of her bilingual (Spanish/English) book.
1. Beca Chile Crea, Fondo del Libro. Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio de Chile.
Project: Historias de hilo: síntoma y relato en la obra de creadoras chilenas
This funding will support all remaining fees for the MPhil in Latin American Studies (by Thesis only).
2. Fondart, Fondo de las Artes y Cultura. Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio de Chile.
Book: Historias de hilo: síntoma y relato en la obra de la artista chilena contemporánea Francisca Aninat / Thread (hi)stories: Symptom and Narrative in the Artwork of Contemporary Chilean Artist Francisca Aninat
This bilingual (Spanish/English) publication is supported by Fondart, Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Cultural y las Artes, Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio, and Editorial Metales Pesados, Chile.
Thread (hi)stories: Symptom and Narrative in the Artwork of Contemporary Chilean Artist Francisca Aninat explores the threads present in the artwork of Chilean contemporary artist Francisca Aninat (b. 1979), who has produced collaborative paintings in the silence of hospital waiting rooms. Each stitch seems to dwell these places, re-figuring (un)seen times where anxiety and traces of a precarious health system are overlapped on the canvases. These threads would reveal the presence of layered lived times resonating alongside the artwork, connecting private and public, individual and collective spaces along with ancient practices weaved together through present collaborative artistic practices.
Valentina Gajardo (cvg25) is art historian and curator. Her aim has been to create a porous flow between the arts and education, in the pursuit of making (un)seen times visible through the works of Chilean artists. Her research reflects on the symptoms and narratives present in Chilean art production since the return to democracy, weaving artwork into untold stories that have remained in silence.
She is currently studying an MPhil in Latin American Studies (by Thesis only) at the Centre for Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge, and is working on the curatorial project Weaving Symptoms of Time, which will be presented at the Heong Gallery.
Book - Desplazamiento de la imagen: el hilo como síntoma y relato en la obra de Francisca Aninat
Speaker at the Women's Art Collection Conference - March 2024. Artworks and Artists in Context/ Thinking Across Media.
Women's Art Collection Programme
¡Felicitaciones, Valentina!