FERNANDA LÓPEZ QUILODRÁAN, THE ARTIST NOMINATED AT Ch.ACO 2024 FOR THE EFG LATIN AMERICAN ART AWARD
The EFG Latin American Art Award, together with ArtNexus, announced Fernanda López Quilodráan from Santiago, (Chile), as one of the finalists for the annual acquisition award, whose winner will be announced at Pinta Miami during Miami Art Week.
Fernanda López Quilodráan, represented by Aninat Galería de arte, Santiago, Chile, is the nominated artist for the EFG Latin America Art Award. Healing and Sacredness are at the center of Fernanda Lopez's investigations. Her actions become performance and textile art, and they intersect. La Muda, 2020 work nominated for the award, is based on the notion of separation of body and soul in the face of a great fright. The textile layer created by cyanotype enters the performance that, once documented, becomes video; in this way all the pieces and actions that make up his installation are interrelated.
Faced with a world that floods us with atrocities occurring simultaneously in different parts of the planet, Fernanda proposes the ritualistic action of healing. Although in indigenous communities healing rituals have been practiced since ancestral times, today they are indispensable for all humanity.
The work was selected for the Ch.ACO fair with the collaboration of Alexia Tala, independent curator, together with Celia Sredni de Birbragher, director and editor of ArtNexus.
The EFG Latin America Art Award, now in its fourteenth year, was created to support the production of Latin American artists. The process consists of pre-selecting the work of artists through a jury at contemporary art fairs in Latin America throughout each year. The award aims to promote the continent's visual arts production and regional fairs among collectors from around the world.
This year the fairs where pre-selection will be made are: SP Arte, São Paulo; PArC, Lima; arteba, Buenos Aires; Ch.ACO, Santiago de Chile and ArtBo, Bogota.
As in previous years, once the nominees have been selected at the participating Latin American art fairs, the acquisition will be announced at Pinta Miami during the week of Art Basel. EFG Capital will acquire a representative artwork by the winning artist. The entire EFG Latin America Art Award collection is on permanent display at EFG Capital's Miami office.
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