Chilean singer mon laferte inaugurated at the Gabriela Mistral Cultural Center (GAM), in the center of Santiago de Chile, the multidisciplinary exhibition I love youa retrospective in which she gives free rein to her facet as a poet and painter, with a side of protest in defense of women’s rights, the LGTBI+ collective, democracy and respect for what is different and an aesthetic influenced by the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.
The sample collection is part of the activities organized on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the festival theater a thousandone of the most important artistic activities in South America and which this year will devote a large part of its programming to the commemoration of 50th anniversary of the military coup who in 1973 overthrew the democratic government of then President Salvador Allende.
A mural in the National Stadium
Laferte herself began the commemorations this week with the unveiling of a large mural painted together with the artist González monkey on one of the walls of the National Stadium, a place of torture and repression of the dictatorship.
“I think sometimes we want to be the best in something, we want to be seen, we want to be hugged, loved, we fight for a cause and we defend it,” explained the artist to the assembled audience.
“But I see that we also need a lot, a lot of love and I want to tell you that no matter who you are, what you think, your ideals, your fears, your successes, your failures, I love you, and this is art“added Laferte, winner of four Latin Grammy Awards.
The exhibition traces the life of the artistof her early life, and displays items from when she was a child, such as a toy unicorn, her first accolades, such as a medal for her beautiful voice in school, the first guitar she played, and even drawings and poems she wrote while growing up. his adolescence.
It also shows some of her most iconic dresses, paintings painted by the artist in oils, ink drawings, three large rag monsters and a colorful forest hanging from the ceiling in which the sentences recorded by the author herself slip like a shower of whispers. envelop the viewer in a magical environment.
On the walls you can read dozens of verses and reflections, both printed and handmade, for life.
memory fragments
“I love you invites us to retrace some glimpses of Mon Laferte’s biography and, through these fragments of memory, reveal the place in the world that the artist occupies. Because it is from that sense of belonging that he exhibits his creations,” explained Beatriz Bustos, curator of the exhibition.
“The invitation is to observe with a gaze free from prejudices; to travel, explore and wander to discover the impulses that mobilize your work”, he added.
The exhibition, which opens the new season of the GAM, will be open in Santiago throughout the month of January and The intention is that after that he will go on tour first in Chile and then in Latin America and the rest of the world.
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Source: Clarin
