About the work

It’s a memory of someone I knew, and is meant to invoke some entities, smoking the pipe and speaking alone. My old friend died.

Date and country of birth

1967, CL

About the artist

Sandra Vasquez de la Horra was born 1967 Viña del Mar. Graduated from Visual Communications, University for Design, Viña del Mar (1994); and Postgraduate Studies, Kunsthochschule für Medien, Cologne (2003).

In order to explain my practice, it´s necessary to talk about alchemy and an experimental approach to drawing in three dimensionality – using architecture, installation and other formats. An ensemble which I pin to the wall, reminiscent of practices used in a Natural History Museum, an accumulation of drawings pinned like insects in an organic or geometrical form, each time makes a new improvisation that appears to look like a chaotic story board. My perception of space and dimensions have changed in the last few years, and I have begun to work in large format using cotton paper. I am now putting together a lot of different symbols, typography, and patterns, all of which mean something to me, like poetry, and takes me into another space where I identify better.

Selected exhibitions include Aguas Profundas, Museo Novecento, Florence (2019); Guerlain Collection in Centre Pompidou, Albertina Museum, Vienna (2019); Auto fictions – Contemporary drawing, Prix de dessin de la Fondation d’art contemporain Daniel & Florence Guerlain, Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein (2018); The artist voice, The Parkview Museum, Singapore (2017); SEHT, da ist DER MENSCH, Art Museum Magdeburg (2017); Embracing Modernism: Ten Years of Drawings Acquisitions, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York (2015); Drawing: The Bottom Line, S.M.A.K, Ghent (2015); Awards, Kunstfonds, Bonn (2013); Sommer Nacht Traum. Frauen – Landschaften, Altana Kultur Stiftung, Sinclair Haus, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe (2013); 30th Sao Paulo Biennial (2012); Une montagne nommée désir, Musée d’art moderne, Saint Etienne (2011); Vuela Mi Alma, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht (2010); Daniel & Florence Guerlain Fundation Drawing Preis, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2009); and Mitologica, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf (2008).