Paz Errázuriz, Evelyn, La Palmera, Santiago/Evelyn, La Palmera, Santiago from the series Manzana de Adán color [Adam's Apple colour], 1983, Digital ink print on paper. © Paz Errázuriz. Colecciones Fundación MAPFRE

MK Gallery is showing the first major UK exhibition dedicated to the work of pioneering Chilean photographer Paz Errázuriz (b. Santiago, 1944).

Paz Errázuriz is one of Latin America’s most important documentary photographers. Over the course of five decades, she has built a vast and uncompromising body of work that retains the capacity to chal- lenge social norms and political orthodoxies. Yet, despite her status as a progressive female artist who has received international recognition, her work has yet to have a solo institutional exhibition in the UK.

This landmark exhibition at MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, presenting 171 photographs will provide visitors with a unique insight into Chilean society through a historical era of immense change.
After studying at the Cambridge Institute of Education in the UK, Errázuriz taught herself to use a cam- era before emerging as a pivotal artist during the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile (1973–1990). In violation of her country’s military regime, and often in direct defiance of strict censorship laws, Errázuriz trav- elled widely to fearlessly document the lives of those overlooked including women, indigenous groups and groups pushed to the margins of society, including sex workers, trans communities, psychiatric patients and political dissidents . Viewed today, her images shed light on Chilean people, communities and movements that might otherwise be lost to time.

The exhibition will feature some of her most iconic series, including La Manzana de Adán (Adam’s Ap- ple), which portrays the lives of Chilean LGBTQIA+ people, sex workers in the 1980s, and Antesala de un Desndo (Antechamber of a Nude), a haunting series that captures the conditions of psychiatric patients in long-term care.

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