Paz Errázuriz Chilean, b. 1944
Chilean photographer Paz Errázuriz began taking photographs in the 1970s during the Pinochet dictatorship, and in subsequent decades travelled extensively to document the landscape and people of her native country. Throughout her dedicated practice, Errázuriz became intimate with not only her home city, Santiago, but also Chile’s central valley, Patagonia, and Valparaíso, forming long-lasting relationships with her many subjects. Her commitment to her subjects is steadfast—she is known for spending months or years within a given community, building trust and carefully studying social structures. During the dictatorship her projects were in violation of the regulations imposed by the military regime, as she dared to visit underground brothels, shelters, psychiatric wards, and boxing clubs, where women were not welcome.
In the words of author Gerardo Mosquera, “the spaces explored in Errázuriz’s photos—beyond the striking personalities—reveal an extreme aesthetic that also exposes the potholes and irregularities left in the path of modernization. Her work consistently focuses on the social marginality that continues to plague the country, thereby capsizing Chile’s image of buoyancy by intuitively penetrating the contradictions—the innumerable cracks and fissures—that persist to this day.”
Errázuriz is one of the most internationally recognised Chilean photographers. In 2015, she represented Chile at the Venice Biennale. Her work has been exhibited extensively internationally and most recently she has had a retrospective at Fundación MAPFRE which will travel to Jeu de Paume-Tours in 2015. Her work was also included in ‘Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins’ at the Barbican Art Gallery, London in 2018.
Errázuriz’s work is in important public collections including the Tate, London; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid and Daros LatinAmerica Collection, Zurich.
She has published a number of photography books, including El infarto del Alma, with the writer Diamela Eltit; La Manzana de Adán, with the writer Claudia Donoso; Kawesqar: Hijos de la Muer Sol; Amalia, a children’s book; and a monograph of her work entitled Paz Errázuriz, Fotografía 1982-2002.
Co-founder of the Asociación de Fotógrafos Independientes (AFI), Chile’s association of independent photographers, she has contributed to magazines such as APSI as well as many press agencies and has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation (1986), Fundación Andes (1990), the Fulbright Program (1992) and Fondart (1994 and 2009). She has been honored with the Ansel Adams Award, given by the Instituto Chileno-Norteamericano de Cultura (1995); the Lifetime Achievement award, given by the Chilean Art Critics Circle (2005); and Chile’s Altazor award (2005). In 2014 she received the Pablo Neruda Order of Merit.
-
Paz Errázuriz
Los Nómadas Del Mar [Nomads of the Sea] 11 Jun - 15 Jul 2021Cecilia Brunson Projects is delighted to present five photographs from Paz Errázuriz’s series Los Nómadas Del Mar [Nomads of the Sea]. This series of photographs was originally shown at the...Read more -
Paz Errázuriz
Próceres [National Heroes] 17 Jan - 6 Mar 2020Cecilia Brunson Projects is delighted to share with you the first exhibition in our new space, the Viewing Room. 'Paz Errázuriz: Próceres [National Heroes]' will be shown alongside the main...Read more -
Paz Errázuriz
Circo [Circus] 18 Nov 2017 - 19 Jan 2018Cecilia Brunson Projects is proud to announce the upcoming solo exhibition with Paz Errázuriz. Errázuriz is one of Chile's most internationally recognised photographers. Famous for her photographs which captured life...Read more -
Paz Errázuriz: 'The Poetics of Humans' at the Jeu de Paume, Paris
3 Jul - 24 Sep 2017Paz Errázuriz began her career as an autodidact under Pinochet’s dictatorship in the 1970s. Co-founder of the Independent Photographer’s Association (AFI), she used black and white portraits to denounce the...Read more -
Paz Errázuriz: Poetics of Dissent at 56th Venice Biennale, Italy
9 May - 22 Nov 2015Press Release Poéticas de la Disidencia / Poetics of Dissent Artists: Paz Errázuriz Lotty Rosenfeld Curator and catalogue editor: Nelly Richard (* 1948 Caen, France. Lives in Chile since 1970.)...Read more
-
Nelly Richard, Paz Errazuriz
Poetics of Dissent 2016 Read more -
Paz Errázuriz
Paz Errázuriz 2015 Read more -
Paz Errázuriz
Paz Errázuriz 2015 Read more -
Paz Errázuriz
Paz Errázuriz 2016 Read more -
Paz Errázuriz
El Infarto del Alma 1999 Read more -
Tectonic Shift
Contemporary Art from Chile Cecilia Brunson, 2011 Hardback, Exhibition Catalogue Read more
-
Paz Errázuriz: La Manzana de Adán (Adam’s Apple) (1982-87)
Cassie Packard, Hyperallergic, October 17, 2021 -
Paz Errázuriz: 'Próceres [National Heroes]'
Rebecca Jagoe, Artishock, February 14, 2020 -
Paz Errázuriz: The woman who defied the Pinochet regime
Fiona Macdonald, BBC , March 28, 2019 -
The Photographer Who Documented the Underbelly of Chilean Society
Irina Baconsky, AnOther , April 12, 2018 -
Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins
Alex Daniel, Elephant, March 5, 2018 -
A Photographer Captures Chilean Street Life, from the Hustlers to the Homeless
Ela Bittencourt, Hyperallergic, September 1, 2017 -
How One Woman Used her Camera to Defy a Dictatorship
Ellie Howard, DAZED, July 13, 2017 -
Paz Errázuriz: the woman who dared to defy the Pinochet regime – in pictures
The Guardian , January 7, 2016
-
Museum Acquisition
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) July 30, 2021We are delighted to announce that Paz Errázuriz's La Manzana de Adán (Adam's Apple) has recently been acquired by The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA),...Read more -
Biennale
Paz Errazuriz at the 22nd Bienal de Arte Paiz May 12, 2021Paz Errazuriz participates at the 22nd Bienal de Arte Paiz curated by Alexia Tala with Gabriel Rodriguez as assistant curator in Guatemala. She was invited...Read more -
Biennale
Paz Errázuriz participates in the 2020 Online Mercosur Visual Arts Biennial July 6, 2020Paz Errázuriz participates in the 2020 Online Mercosur Visual Arts Biennial. Click here to find out more 'The Mercosur Biennial 12 invites you to visit...Read more -
Exhibition
Paz Errázuriz in Urban Impulses: Latin American Photography From 1959 to 2017 June 12, 2019We are proud to announce that Paz Errázuriz is selected to exhibit at the Urban Impulses show at The Photographers Gallery, London (14th June -...Read more -
Museum Exhibition
Paz Errázuriz: Another kind of life at the Barbican, London March 15, 2018Wed 28 Feb – Sun 27 May 2018 At a time when individual rights are being contested and those on the fringes of society feel...Read more