“Proyecto Colchane”
Solo Exhibition
Opening: Wednesday 31st of July at 18:00
From July 31st to August 28th 2024
Guided tour: Saturday August 3rd at 12:00 h
Patricia Ready Gallery
Espoz 3125, Vitacura, Santiago de Chile.
Patricia Ready Gallery presents ‘Proyecto Colchane’ by Patrick Hamilton. This exhibition transports us to the heights of the Chilean Altiplano, specifically to Colchane, a border crossing between Chile and Bolivia.
In 2009, Patrick Hamilton immersed himself in this community as part of the 1st Chile Triennial, exploring its migratory and commercial dynamics. The works now presented here emerge directly from that intense experience. From the walls lined with red paper sacks, used to transport goods, to the meticulous photographs of the trading carts that define life on the border, each piece is a visual and conceptual testament.
Hamilton seeks not only to capture the aesthetics of Colchane, but to unravel the social and economic complexities of a place frozen in time, faced with an unforgiving climate and the daily challenges of survival. His works are not just objects, but carriers of profound stories about human resilience and adaptation in extreme environments.
The focus of this exhibition is the border-crossing trolleys, reproduced by Hamilton using an innovative technique combining backlit photographic printing. These depictions not only capture the physical landscape, but also symbolise mobility and the constant transformation of geographical and cultural boundaries.
About the artist:
Patrick Hamilton is a Chilean artist, graduated in Arts from the University of Chile and currently based in Madrid. His work has been widely exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Latin America, the United States and Europe. Some of the institutions where he has shown his work include the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Museo de Arte, Arquitectura e Tecnología (MAAT) in Lisbon, the Bronx Museum of the Arts in New York, the Auckland Art Gallery in New Zealand and the Biennials of Sao Paulo, Havana, Portland, Cuenca, Mercosur, Lisbon, Prague, among others.