Valeria Zalaquett

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Valeria Zalaquett
Born
Valeria Francisca Zalaquett Fuentealba

(1971-11-27) 27 November 1971 (age 52)
Santiago, Chile
Alma mater Pompeu Fabra University
OccupationPhotographer
Awards APES  [ es ] Award (1997)

Valeria Francisca Zalaquett Fuentealba (born 27 November 1971) is a Chilean photographer and portraitist who has worked mainly in contemporary and digital art. [1] [2] [3]

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Biography

Valeria Zalaquett has a degree in philosophy from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, an institution where she also took courses in photography and filmmaking. In addition, she complemented her training with a master's degree in Digital Arts at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. [1]

In her work, a fusion between photography and visual arts can be seen through photomontage [4] and the use of black and white photography "through compositions that interlace different strata of shapes and textures, picking up the new technological resources to translate a language of their own." [1] According to art critic Waldemar Sommer, Zalaquett "uses photography as painting." [5] In particular, it has been observed that her signature "has been the mixture of images, reaching a point where these seem more like paintings. Her photos intervene digitally, as if they were layers of paintings." [3]

Group exhibitions

Zalaquett has participated in group exhibitions at the ArteBA in Buenos Aires (2008), [6] Digital Media Festival in Toronto (2011), in Water at the Amsterdam Photography Biennale (2004), Paisaje, Figura Humana, Bodegón: Una revisión a la Fotografía Chilena Contemporánea at the Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts (2006), and Video "8 tries, Parrilla at the Centro Cultural Matucana 100 (2005). [1] [7]

Awards

In 1997 she received the APES  [ es ] Award for her work in lighting design for Sexo, Drogas y Rock & Roll. [1]

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References

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  2. "Fotopoética de la ensoñación: Las nuevas imágenes de Valeria Zalaquett" [Photopoetics of Reverie: The New Images of Valeria Zalaquett]. El Mercurio (in Spanish). 15 October 2006. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
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  5. Sommer, Waldemar (2 January 2011). "Final de año en Vitacura" [End of the Year in Vitacura]. El Mercurio (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 November 2018.
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