MEETING L’ŒIL PENSE
WITH PAZ ERRÁZURIZ
UNFINISHED STORIES: PAZ ERRÁZURIZ
IN CONVERSATION WITH BÉATRICE ANDRIEUX AND ANDREA AGUAD
As part of the exhibition Paz Errázuriz, Unfinished Stories, curated by Béatrice Andrieux, at the Maison de l’Amérique latine (08 September - 20 December 2023).
Paz Errázuriz (Santiago, 1944) began working under the military dictatorship in Chile. A founding member of the Chilean Association of Independent Photographers (AFI), her photographic work reads as a social testimony of the reality of her country.
Her ambition is to encourage the public to look at the part of reality that society refuses to talk about, as in 1983 when she began her famous series of portraits of transvestites, "La Manzana de Adán".
She mainly documents invisible communities such as sex workers, wrestlers, circus performers, and vulnerable populations…
In 2017, she won the Madame Figaro - Arles Photo Prize, awarded with the support of Kering | Women In Motion, and received a large retrospective at the Rencontres d’Arles that same year.
Béatrice Andrieux has been developing a critical practice for several years, which has extended into a curatorial practice in the fields of contemporary art and image. She has written on the work of Marie Bovo, Nicolas Floc’h, Nina Mae Fowler, Corinne Mercadier, and Philippe Ramette. She has curated several exhibitions, including Levitt France, une utopie pavillonnaire at the Rencontres d’Arles in 2017, Miguel Rothschild, le Spectre at the Maison de l’Amérique latine in 2018, Regards de femmes at Fondation. A in Brussels in 2022, and Philippe Ramette at the Bonisson Art Center in 2023. Andrea Aguad …
Interpreter from Spanish into French: Christina Chirouze Montenegro
