The Brownstone Foundation presents from September 3 to 21 the exhibition LO QUE VI CHILI 1973-2022 by the French-Chilean artist Paz Corona. Composed of three films and a ceramic installation of 1,500 flowers, conceived as a reference to Monet’s Water Lilies, LO QUE VI CHILI 1973-2022 poetically traces Chile’s turbulent history and its inexorable repetition.
Born in Santiago, Chile, Paz Corona emigrated to France at the age of 5 following Pinochet’s coup d’état (1973), only to return there forty years later. Forty years is also the time it took for the Chilean people to take to the streets and rise up. The political events in Chile in October 2019, when many of the films were shot
contingently, have placed this exhibition in a burning actuality. With LO QUE VI CHILI 1973-2022, Paz Corona traces the history of her native country, which she intertwines with her own narrative, a journey of initiation in search of reconciliation. The spectator wanders through this vast metaphor of the cyclical passage of time, to experience and think about what is repeated in history: that of Chile, and that of the world.
