Soledad Pinto b.1978 Temuco, Chile. Lives and works in London.
Pinto’s work recovers the hybrid atmosphere of "lost territories"-landscapes memories, cityscapes, and urban ruins- translating and restoring them in tension with the material boundaries of the exhibition space. Her translations (reterritorializations) are conceived as interplays between opposite poles and juxtapositions of different kind of spaces in a single place. They highlight the ambivalent, contingent, and transient nature of the limits that structure our daily experience. Pinto gained her MA from Wimbledon College of Art, (2007), and BA from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2001). She has recently shown her work at 91mQ art project space, Berlin (2010); Praxis International Art, New York and Miami (2009) and Centro de Extensión Pontificia Universidad Católica, Santiago de Chile (2009). Awards include FONDART (Chile, 2009 and 2008), and Banco de Chile Award, XXIV National Art and Poetry Competition (Chile, 2002).