Paz Errázuriz
Paz Errázuriz was born in 1944 in Santiago de Chile,
where she currently lives and works
Paz Errázuriz is a Chilean photographer whose work could be described as a social testimony of the reality in her country. Following a career as an educator, she began her self taught photographic instruction —which she perfected in 1993 at the International Center of Photography in New York— and was a founding member of Chile’s Association of Independent Photographers. Starting to work in the early 1980s, during the military dictatorship of Chile, Errázuriz documented marginalised communities such as sex workers, wrestlers and circus performers. Her intention is to encourage the public to look at the part of reality that society refuses to look at, not in the terms of journalistic photo-realism, but rather in an attempt to subvert the conventions of the visual order, and its traditional values. In 1983 she started her celebrated series of portraits of transvestites, La Manzana de Adán, a project with first publication was possible thanks to a John Simon Guggenheim fellowship (1986-1987). Ever since, Errázuriz work has focused in the people that stand outside the center and have always been subordinated to power.
Her work has been shown extensively internationally, with solo shows at the Centro de la Imagen (2022), Mexico City; the Bienal de Guatemala (2021); Instituto Moreira Salles, Sao Paulo (2020); Barbican Gallery, London (2018); Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile (2018); Les Rencontres d’Arles, France (2017); Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico (2017); Fundación Mapfre, Madrid (2015); Berkeley Art Museum (2014) and Museo de Arte del Banco de la República, Bogotá (2005), among others. In 2015 she represented Chile in the 56th Venice Biennale.
Paz Errázuriz photographs are part of many institutional collections such as the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Tate Modern, the Guggenheim Museum, the Museo Reina Sofia, the Museo de Arte del Banco de la República, as well as many private collections.
La manzana de Adan (Evelyn, Santiago), 1982-1986 - Vintage silverprint on fiber paper
La manzana de Adan (Evelyn, Santiago), 1982-1986 - Vintage silverprint on fiber paper
La manzana de Adan, 1982-1986 - Exhibition view, 56th Venice Biennale, 2015
La manzana de Adan, 1982-1986 & El infarto del alma, 1992 (Exhibition view, 56th Venice Biennale, 2015)
La manzana de Adan (Evelyn, Santiago), 1982-1986 - Vintage silverprint on fiber paper
La manzana de Adan (La Palmera, Santiago), 1982-1986 - Vintage silverprint on fiber paper
La manzana de Adan, 1982-1986 (Exhibition view, Barbican Centre, London, 2018)
La manzana de Adan, 1982-1986 - Exhibition view, Barbican Centre, London, 2018
La manzana de Adan, 1982-1986 - Exhibition view, Barbican Centre, London, 2018
La manzana de Adan (La Jaula, Talca), 1982-1986 - Digital print
La manzana de Adan (Evelyn, La Palmera, Santiago), 1982-1986 - Digital print
El caminante, 1987 - Digital print
La Manzana de Adan (Coral), 1982-1986 - Exhibition view, Jeu de Paume, Arles, 2017
La manzana de Adan (Coral), 1982-1986 - Vintage silverprint on fiber paper
La Manzana de Adán & El Infarto del Alma - Exhibition view, Il Posto, Santiago de Chile, 2020
La Manzana de Adán - Exhibition view, Il Posto, Santiago de Chile, 2020
La Manzana de Adán - Exhibition view, Centro de la imagen, Mexico City, 2022
Formas de decir aquí -Exhibition view, Centro de la imagen, Mexico City, 2022
El infarto del alma, 1992 & La manzana de Adan, 1982-1986 - Exhibition view, Sala Alcalá 31, Madrid, 2020
El infarto del alma, 1992 - Digital print
El infarto del alma, 1992 -Vintage silverprint on fiber paper
El infarto del alma, 1992 - Vintage silverprint on fiber paper
El circo (Mago Capriario), 1981 - Vintage silverprint on fiber paper
El circo (Miss Piggy II), 1981 - Vintage silverprint on fiber paper
El circo (Miss Piggy I), 1981 - Vintage silverprint on fiber paper
El circo (Mago), 1981 - Vintage silverprint on fiber paper
Boxeadores, 1987 - Exhibition view, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile, 2018
Boxeadores, 1987 - Vintage silverprint on fiber paper
Boxeadores, 1987 - Vintage silverprint on fiber paper
Boxeadores, 1987 - Vintage silverprint on fiber paper
Boxeadores, 1987 - Exhibition view, Fundación Mapfre, Madrid, 2015
Luchadores del ring, 1988-1991 - Exhibition view, Fundación Mapfre, Madrid, 2015
Luchadores del ring (La momia y su hijo II), 1988-1991 - Digital print
Luchadores del ring (Black Demon), 1988-1991 - Digital print
Luchadores del ring (La momia), 1988-1991 - Digital print
Tango, 1986 – Exhibition view, Jeu de Paume, Arles, 2017
Tango, 1986 - Vintage silverprint on fiber paper
Tango, 1986 - Vintage silverprint on fiber paper
Tango, 1986 - Exhibition view, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico, 2017
Exéresis, 2008 - Exhibition view, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico, 2017
Exéresis, 2008 - Silverprint on fiber paper
Exéresis, 2008 - Silverprint on fiber paper
Exéresis, 2008 - Silverprint on fiber paper
Nómades del mar, 1995 - Series of digital prints and vintage silverprints on fiber paper
Nómades del mar, 1995 - Vintage silverprint on fiber paper
Nómades del mar, 1995 - Vintage silverprint on fiber paper
Nómades del mar, 1995 - Vintage silverprint on fiber paper
Nómades del mar, 1995 - Digital print
Sepur Zarco, 2020 - Exhibition view, Bienal de Guatemala, 2021. Photo: Byron Mármol
Sepur Zarco, 2020 - Series of digital prints
Sepur Zarco, 2020 - Series of digital prints
Sepur Zarco, 2020 - Exhibition view, mor charpentier, 2022
Mujeres de Chile (Juana Sarzoza, cuidadora del cementerio general, Santiago), c. 1992 - Vintage silver print on fiber paper
Mujeres de Chile (Hermana Alejandra, monja benedictina, Rengo), c. 1992 - Vintage silver print on fiber paper
Mujeres de Chile (Untitled II), c. 1992 - Vintage silver print on fiber paper
Niñas, 1980-2014 - Exhibition view, mor charpentier, 2022
Niñas, 1980-2014 - Detail, mor charpentier, 2022
Muñecas, 2014 - Series of digital prints
Muñecas, 2014 - Series of digital prints
Muñecas, 2014 - Series of digital prints