Paz Errázuriz
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Paz Errázuriz’s photographic practice is embedded in a long history of resistance against authoritarian rule in Chile. Unlike many of her peers, Errázuriz did not go into exile during the 17-year-long dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. She photographed marginalized and dispossessed communities in her country: homeless people, transvestite sex workers, circus performers, wrestlers, boxers, or women incarcerated in a psychiatric prison ward. Using photography, she portrayed a quiet resistance embodied through borderline practices and ways of life. It was the military coup and ensuing dictatorship that prompted Errázuriz to take on photography, and her resistance to the political and economic regime shaped the subject matter of her work. She continues to affectionately explore the lives of those who escape normative preconceptions about gender, mental health, or body stereotypes. Errázuriz is interested in working from the margins, gently revealing those fragments of society that are easily obliterated in hegemonic discourses and world-views.
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Paz Errázuriz’s photographic practice is embedded in a long history of resistance against authoritarian rule in Chile. Unlike many of her peers, Errázuriz did not go into exile during the 17-year-long dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. She photographed marginalized and dispossessed communities in her country: homeless people, transvestite sex workers, circus performers, wrestlers, boxers, or women incarcerated in a psychiatric prison ward. Using photography, she portrayed a quiet resistance embodied through borderline practices and ways of life. It was the military coup and ensuing dictatorship that prompted Errázuriz to take on photography, and her resistance to the political and economic regime shaped the subject matter of her work.
She continues to affectionately explore the lives of those who escape normative preconceptions about gender, mental health, or body stereotypes. Errázuriz is interested in working from the margins, gently revealing those fragments of society that are easily obliterated in hegemonic discourses and world-views.