{"id":1135,"date":"2024-08-23T13:54:35","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T11:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/galeriamemoria.com\/?page_id=1135"},"modified":"2026-05-05T16:40:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T14:40:35","slug":"paz-errazuriz","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/galeriamemoria.com\/en\/artists\/paz-errazuriz\/","title":{"rendered":"Paz Err\u00e1zuriz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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After studying at the Cambridge Institute of Education (1966) and the Pontifical Catholic University of Santiago (1972), Paz Err\u00e1zuriz co-founded the Association of Independent Photographers in 1981, along with several other Chilean photographers. It was not until 1993 that she obtained formal education in photography by enrolling in the International Center for Photography in New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout more than three decades of her career, Err\u00e1zuriz documents the social and historical processes of her environment. During the years of the Pinochet dictatorship, the artist brought to light the different processes of alienation, exclusion and violence that were reproduced in Chilean society. Paz Err\u00e1zuriz, and her unique ability to construct poetic and intimate narratives on complex and delicate subjects, produced the series Dormidos<\/em> (Sleeping in the Streets) between 1979 and 1980, in which she documented the lives of homeless people sleeping on the streets of Santiago, in a critique and metaphor of the paralysis of citizens in Chile during the regime of repression. In the important series La manzana de Ad\u00e1n<\/em> (Adam\u2019s Apple) (1982\u201390), Err\u00e1zuriz brings to light the life of resistance of transsexual people by entering into this marginalized community, subject to various forms of violence for their mere existence. The artist portrays, over the course of eight years, the community care networks through which her subjects survive the conditions of oppression and persecution.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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