Macarena was born in Santiago de Chile, she lives and works part of the year in Miami and part in Santiago, she graduated with distinction in Fine Arts at Catholic University of Chile, she has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Chile, France, USA and Spain, she has represented Chile in Revelations Biennial, Paris (2019), she was selected in Cerco Award, Spain (2021), she participated in Korea Ceramics Biennale (2019), since 2019 se belongs to the International Academy of Ceramics IAC.
The works that Macarena proposes to us are abstract works that connect us with the vital energy of nature and its cycles. She works with painting and in parallel with stoneware, with works connected with materiality and gesture. Her paintings are ancestral cartographies, evoque maps, are aerial views of the sacred places of the native people.
Her ceramics sculptures allude to the vessels and ceremonial objects still being found in burials and excavations, seeming to be extracted from the memory of an ancestral lava, with her potter´s hands, she delved in to the essence of the native people, proposing works that was inspired in their rituals and ceremonies.
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