Aninat, Teresa

Born in Boston, United States, in 1973, she lives and develops her artistic production in Santiago de Chile. She holds a degree in Visual Arts from the University of Chile (2004). She has conducted artistic research on the themes of belonging and personal and collective identity, manifested through an incessant personal exploration across different types of territories: natural, institutional and collective. The artist explores, through certain thematic axes, reality in search of a utopian response about the individual and collective self, through a performative process of exploration and documentation, as well as the involvement of anonymous citizens, civil society associations and symbolic institutions of the republican national life in the processes of production and circulation of works. Thus, her work has been built based on performative explorations through the Andes Mountains, Patagonia, the Southernmost Extremity (Cape Horn), and the Pacific Ocean, involving both anonymous individuals in urban transit and citizen associations of identity-defined collectives with common interests (Philatelic Society, Radio Amateurs of Chile), as well as symbolic institutions of a viewpoint that resists transitioning to a postmodern logic, such as Correos de Chile (Chilean Postal Service), National Historical Museum and Chilean Navy.