Margarita Dittborn
b. in Santiago, Chile, 1981. lives and works in Santiago, Chile.
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Margarita Dittborn lives and works in Santiago, Chile in 2008 she received the "Best Chilean Photography Exhibition Prize" at the Art Critics Circle Awards for her series “Lovesick Woman.” Dittborn was also featured in a directory of the top 500 young artists in the world, “Younger than Jesus,” published by the New Museum in New York, USA and Phaidon in 2009, in conjunction with that museum’s new signature triennial.
Margarita Dittborn’s work draws inspiration from her own life experiences, which circle around identifiable themes such as love and relationships, pain and suffering, basic needs and desires. What makes her work stand out is the way in which she presents these experiences and themes. Using digital photomontage and lots of creativity, she pieces together different textures and objects, both real and artificial, and sometimes in disproportionate proportions. At times she might incorporate poetic elements and the concept of lighting from Baroque paintings by Old Masters (only those she has seen in person at the Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts in Santiago), draw references from Chile’s colonial history, aboriginal culture or religious motifs. Her work is a presentation of her own interpretations of her subject matter and a result of her self-criticism while the process of creating is both a means of healing and a way of documenting a milestone.
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Margarita Dittborn lives and works in Santiago, Chile in 2008 she received the "Best Chilean Photography Exhibition Prize" at the Art Critics Circle Awards for her series “Lovesick Woman.” Dittborn was also featured in a directory of the top 500 young artists in the world, “Younger than Jesus,” published by the New Museum in New York, USA and Phaidon in 2009, in conjunction with that museum’s new signature triennial.
Margarita Dittborn’s work draws inspiration from her own life experiences, which circle around identifiable themes such as love and relationships, pain and suffering, basic needs and desires. What makes her work stand out is the way in which she presents these experiences and themes. Using digital photomontage and lots of creativity, she pieces together different textures and objects, both real and artificial, and sometimes in disproportionate proportions. At times she might incorporate poetic elements and the concept of lighting from Baroque paintings by Old Masters (only those she has seen in person at the Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts in Santiago), draw references from Chile’s colonial history, aboriginal culture or religious motifs. Her work is a presentation of her own interpretations of her subject matter and a result of her self-criticism while the process of creating is both a means of healing and a way of documenting a milestone.
Exhibitions at Back Gallery Project
Margarita Dittborn | I Love The Things I Never Had and Other Things That I Have Lost (2016)
The dynamic photographic and digital-montages that comprise Chilean artist Margarita Dittborn's work have rightly been described as dreamscapes and universes unto themselves. The three elements that are often apparent in most of her images are food, animals and women embodying a variety of historical personas. Dittborn's work can also be identified through the super-aestheticized combinations of high-contrast colour and light, as well as her layering of textures and outrageous shifts in scale.
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