CHILE AT THE 2026 VENICE BIENNALE: NORTON MAZA PRESENTS "INTER-REALITY"
The proposal selected for the Chilean pavilion brings an immersive experience in Venice that addresses contemporary tensions.
Chile will participate in the 61st Venice Art Biennale with Inter-Reality, by artist Norton Maza, curated by Marisa Cachiolo and Dermis León, and managed by Claudia Pertuzé. The exhibition will be on view from May 9 to November 22, 2026.
The work is presented as a monumental installation that, from its exterior, references geopolitics, landscape, and ecology. In contrast, its interior reveals precarious, handcrafted dioramas that combine references to classical European painting with contemporary issues such as fake news, migration, cultural violence, and environmental devastation. This layering of times and cultures functions as a metaphor for Latin American history.
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Norton Maza. Cortesía del Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio de Chile
The project offers an immersive journey that engages the senses, incorporating a sound dimension built from recordings of helicopters, airplanes, ancestral chants, and nature sounds collected in Chile. The experience seeks to connect the intimate with the political, and the local with the global.
Maza stated: "Representing Chile with Inter-Reality at the Venice Biennale is important because it opens a conversation from a very specific place toward something broader (…) I am more interested in raising questions than in asserting a fixed identity. It is, ultimately, an opportunity to circulate concerns that are not only local, but deeply contemporary," as reported by Chile's Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage.
Chile will return to the Sala dell'Isolotto, in the Arsenale complex — a recently restored space that doubles its exhibition surface area. From a perspective rooted in South America, Inter-Reality addresses contemporary tensions and constructs a complex perceptual field grounded in illusion and simulacrum.
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