Contemporary art exhibition
TE AMO, MON LAFERTE VISUAL
- Country: Chili
- Premiere: 2024
- Target audience: Every spectator
Te amo, Mon Laferte visual is a contemporary art exhibition that presents the multidisciplinary work of the artist Mon Laferte. Through her paintings, drawings, embroidery and a staging made with large-scale dolls made of fabric, which includes extracts from poems, videos and photographs, the artist displays her impulses in a cross between art and life.
The exhibition is an initiative of the Teatro a Mil Festival, which invited curator Beatriz Bustos Oyanedel to work with Mon Laferte on an exhibition that would reflect this visual dimension of her work. The tour of the exhibition begins with a biographical section that covers some fragments of the artist's life through photographs, personal documents, objects, costumes and videos.
In the exhibition there is a series of six portraits of women deprived of their liberty that are accompanied by texts, like brief stories about these women. The artist has done committed work in prisons, establishing creative and collaborative links with women who are prisoners in Sonora and Valparaíso, among other places. “I can say with certainty that the problem of crime arises from inequality,” the artist said in 2019. “From the lack of opportunities and the terrible education system.” Mon Laferte has given writing workshops and sung with the inmates in the different prisons with which she has been involved. In 2019 she composed the song entitled Se va la vida, after a visit to the women's prison in Valparaíso.
The exhibition aims to reveal her lesser-known side, “Mon Laferte is an exponent of what is understood by contemporary art, an artist who works with multiple disciplines to express herself, taking into account the social context and who, through her work, raises her voice. In her work there is an indissoluble relationship between art and life. Nothing she does is alien to the field of art, she establishes multiple crossovers between performance, visuality, music and different poetics and politics", says curator Beatriz Bustos.
Credits:
Artist:
Mon Laferte
Curatorial direction:
Beatriz Bustos Oyanadel
Curatorial team:
Josefina Fueyo
Coordination and museography:
Bastián Pérez
Graphic design:
Ariel Richards
Production:
Fundación Teatro a Mil
Biographies:
Mon Laferte
Beatriz Bustos Oyanedel
Mon Laferte:
Grammy Latino Award, 2021
Mejor Álbum Cantautor por Seis
Grammy Latino Award, 2020
Best Song by Biutiful
Grammy Latino Award, 2019
Best Singer-Songwriter Album by Norma
Previous dates:
January 2024
Opening Centro Cultural GAM, Santiago de Chile