Continuing our 2025 exhibits cycle, we proudly announce the “Primary Obsessions. Reducing the Essential” exhibition by our represented artist, Paula Zegers, at the Museo Andino de Chile. The ancestral images of the Diaguita culture, deeply researched by Zegers, inspire her work with images intrinsic to the origins and evolution of their geometric patterns and spiritual iconography. The austere simplification of rhythmic patterns and the emphasis on symmetry that is evident in Zegers’ work are far from being a mimicry of the Diaguita tradition. They show a deep aesthetic resonance expressed through noble materials such as natural wool and raw fabrics, in which the repetitive processes in the Diaguita culture came to reflect a society concerned with going beyond domestic craftsmanship, expressing in its ceramics a profound understanding of spatiality in the universal language of mathematics and geometry. The Museo Andino de Chile exhibition is a historical review of Paula Zegers’s work. Through it, we connect with a culture believed to be extinct, reborn from her reflective interest and deep methodical research. Her contemporary manifestos invite us to contemplate a past simplified in pure minimalism and undeniable essentiality, thus revindicating the transcendental presence of a lost Indigenous identity fundamental to our spiritual growth and evolution. The retrospective exhibition “Primary Obsessions. “Reducing the Essential” by Paula Zegers continues at the Museo Andino de Chile @museoandino until February 2025.
Noviembre 1, 2024
