Pilar Elgueta (1989 Stgo. CL) is an artist-explorer that activates ideas and images around the relationship between human condition and landscape with a post anthropologic perspective; translating philosophical questions into poetic actions, using the limits of representation as a resource to refer to it, considering failure is an aesthetic phenomenon and taking the journey of exploration a creative practice, visual identity and principle of her artistic work.
Her multimedia research seeks to communicate the ways in which the experience of the world overflows us and collapses our systems, being only capable of capturing a small fragment, trusting in its power of translation and autonomy, and, at the same time, tempting our wills and their futility. A string of attempts, symbols, rhetorical figures and tautologies. The efforts and scaffolding –bodily and structural– involved in the action of transferring, deploying, arranging, sustaining, installing an image or language in a place.
Since 2011 until now she has exhibited her projects in Festivals, Biennales, Museums and Galleries in Chile, Argentina, Perú, Ecuador, Colombia, México, Germany, France and the UK. She has participated in residence programs at the MAC Contemporary Art Museum (Chile), with Ambos Mundos at Epecuén Residency (Argentina), at Estudio A Residency (Mexico), at Delfina Foundation (UK), among others. Her works are part of public and private collections. She received the MAVI Contemporary Young Art Prize in 2015, the Acquisition of Works of Arts, Ministry of Cultures in 2020 and the Artus Scholarship in 2024.