Ximena Zomosa (born 1966,

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and

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who works in

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and conceptual art, whose work demonstrates — from the perspective of

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— a discourse that is fundamentally feminine. She acted in a managerial and curatorial capacity at the Balmaceda Youth Art Gallery, a space for art by emerging Chilean artists. Zomosa studied art at the

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, which complemented her studies at various Chilean universities. Her work is characterized by "la originalidad mostrada en el empleo de materiales sacados de la vida cotidiana y dispuestos en instalaciones inusuales (...). En su afán transformatorio, es evidente un sentido autobiográfico e irónico frente a lo femenino y lo doméstico" ("originality demonstrated in the use of materials from everyday life and displayed in unusual installations (...). In her eager transformation, there is a sense of the autobiographical and irony in the face of that which is feminine and that which is domestic"). In 2004, Zomosa received the Altazor Award of the National Arts in the category of Installations and Video Art for ''Colección de la artista'' (''Artist's Collection''). Throughout her career, Zomosa has participated in solo exhibitions as well as exhibitions featuring other artists, including V Bienal de Estandartes in

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(2008); ''Concours Matisse 1992,'' ''Concours Matisse 1994,'' and ''II Biennial Premio Gunthe,'' in the

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(1992, 1994, and 1995, respectively); ''Última Generación'' at the Chiloé Museum of Modern Art (1995), ''Everyday'' at the

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for the

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(1998); ''El Lugar dentro'' at the Casa Colorada Museum (1999); ''Proyecto de Borde'' at the Valdivia Museum of Contemporary Art (1999); ''Project N11, Muro Sur arte chileno contemporáneo'' for the la Biennale of

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(2004); ''Portable Affairs, Project of a Boundary'' at Artspace Sydney Visual Arts Centre in

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(2005); and ''Arte Mujer y Compromiso Político'' at the

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(2009), and other exhibitions in the

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, and

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