Fernanda Luz
Avendaño

Fernanda Avendaño (Chile, 1993) has a Bachelor of Fine Arts and an MFA degree in Design of Universidad Católica, Chile, she participated in an academic exchange at Universidad do Porto (Portugal, 2016).  Winner of the first place (2017) of the yearly open call of the Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna Museum and honorable mention in the 5th Young Art University Award at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chile. Her work has had presence in Chile, Colombia, Brasil, Portugal and Mexico.

Her work focuses on the investigation of urban landscape, through painting and drawing. She researches the concepts of ruin, heterotopy, monument and no-place, as spaces in constant tension, change and transformation, which reveal political, social, historical, emotional and sensational relations with landscape. She produces a dialectical image, citing modernism through geometric abstraction, investigating a limited pallete of complex colors through mechanical, repetitive, and meticulous manual work processes.

She is interested in investigating the specificity and limits of painting as a medium, and the relation created between image, process, context and concept, as a pre-modern (and corporal) way of production which persist in the digital era.