GONZALO JAVIER MORALES LEIVA
Visual Artist - Chile.
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Biography
Gonzalo Morales Leiva (1985), Chilean artist, studied Film (Argentina), Analogue and Digital Photography (Mexico and Chile) and Visual Arts at Taller Dardo (Chile). His practice encompasses photography, video, drawing, sculpture and performance, to archive ritual experiences inside and outside his studio, in urban and natural environments, alone or with an audience he chooses to call community. He has had exhibitions in Chile, Argentina, Mexico, the United States and Germany, including his exhibition Khipukamayuq, at the Vorfluter Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2023) and his performance ‘Mancharikuy’ at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires, Argentina (2023). He has held artist residencies in Chile, Argentina, Mexico and Germany, highlighting his artist residency at GlogauAIR, Berlin, Germany (2022) and Reset Residency at Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2023).
Statement
Morales Leiva's artistic work emerges from a personal approach titled “Methodology to transit from the surface to the body through the materiality of drawing”. Based on physical improvisation processes, and meditation, it explores subjective states where the capacity of response is materialized in sculptural objects, drawings, videos and photographs. This work takes place both inside and outside his studio, alone or with an audience that he chooses to call community. The actions are assembled using mainly his body as a conductor of a personal language that connects his own experiences with Latin American history, fiction and poetry, informing through memory and haptic perception, rather than conceptual invention. His creations blur disciplinary boundaries, giving rise to installations that project his multisensory and collective perspective of art, establishing affective and political relationships with the specific contextual realities of the moment of its creation.
Resumen CV
Studies
2021 / Annual tutoring in visual arts at Taller Dardo, Santiago, Chile.
2019 / Laboratory of art criticism and curatorship, Página en Blando Art School, Mexico City, Mexico.
2019 / Diploma in artistic photography, CamaraLucida School, Valparaíso, Chile.
2018 / Diploma in Creation of photographic projects and curatorial solutions, Página en Blando Art School,
Mexico City, Mexico.
2007 - 2011 / Film directing, Universidad del Cine de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Art residencies
2023/ Reset Residency, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2023/ Culterim Gallery artist residency, Berlin, Germany.
2023/ LabNL, Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico.
2022/ Glogauair, Berlin, Germany.
2022/ Creative Nucleus, Regional Government of Maule, Talca, Chile.
2022/ Página en Blando, Mexico City, Mexico.
2021/ Creative Nucleus, Regional Government of Maule, Talca, Chile. 2020/ Cámara Lúcida, Punta de Choro,
Chile.
Solo exhibitions
2023/ “Mancharikuy”, Performance at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2023 / “One One One” Culterim Gallery, Berlin, Germany”.
2023 / “Khipukamayuq”, Vorfluter Project space, Berlin, Germany.
2023 / “Flanquear”, Página en Blando Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.
2022 / “It could happen”, Página en Blando Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.
2022 / “A Thousand Fragments of dawn”, Civic Gallery, Curico, Chile.
2021 / “Tactics” Lucid Camera Gallery, Valparaiso, Chile.
2020 / “The truth is a suspended object”, Universidad Católica del Maule Gallery, Talca, Chile.
2020 / “Interrogation” Página en Blando Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.
2019 / “Vanitas” University of Talca Gallery, Curico, Chile.
Group exhibitions
2023 / “Gruß aus Biesenthal”, Culterim Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
2022 / “The abstract image”, Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
2022 / “Docum3nta” Futurama Cultural Center, Mexico City, Mexico. 2022 / “Envío 0,1” Gallery Kastanien Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
2021 / “Casi sin Querer” Taller Dardo, Santiago, Chile.
2020 / “Objeto Paisaje” CENTEX Gallery, Valparaíso, Chile.
Catalog
2024/ Catalog “(Des) Límite: Paisaje Infinito”, Simbiotika Studio in Chaco 14.
2022/ Catalog “Visual Cartography”, Maule Region, Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage, Chile.
Curatorship
2023 / Curator of “Delineate” Solo exhibition of Nasia Papavasiluou at Vorfluter Project Space, Berlin, Germany.
2022 / Curator of the Visual Arts Catalog, Maule Region, Chile - Seremi de Cultura Artes y Patrimonio Maule Region.
2022 / Curator of “Inmensa Sustancia Pequeña”, solo exhibition of Constanza Albornoz, Estudio Simbiotika, Talca, Chile.
Editorial Photography
2021 / Publication “Ni Talca, ni París, ni Londres”, Metropolitan Gallery - Estudio Simbiotika, Chile.
Artistic Workshops Given
Workshop creation of artist’s digital portfolio “A personal presentation strategy”.
2024/ Municipal Corporation of Culture and Arts, Molina, Chile.
2023/ Autonomous University of Chile, Talca, Faculty of Visual Arts.
Drawing and Performance Workshop
2023/ Página en Blando Art School and Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico. 2023/ Cultural High School, Talca, Chile.
Sculpture and Performance Workshop
2023/ Página en Blando Art School and Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.
Artist talks Given
2023/ Expanded Drawing and performance, Museum of Art and Crafts, Linares, Chile.
2023/ Expanded Drawing and performance, Margot Loyola Palacios House of Culture, Linares, Chile.