Ottawa / Chile Residency 2014
Independent Residency Program >> July – August 2014 / ‘Creatures I Saw’ with Chilean artist Felipe Bracelis
The exhibition, Creatures I Saw, featuring the works Felipe Bracelis will develop at the Independent Residency Initiative he has been invited to in Bowman Quebec, by Mr. and Mrs. Lewis-Smith, is part of a lineup of continuous collaborations between La Petite Mort Gallery and Santiago artists, which include the group shows Flesh Garden, shown both at LPM and Biblioteca de Santiago and Post Mortem, shown at LPM and Centro Experimental Perrera Arte (both cocurated and organized by La Petite Mort Gallery’s director, Guy Berube, and Felipe Bracelis), Cristobal Traslaviña’s show at La Petite Mort and Antonio Becerro’s upcoming solo show, which will also be shown at La Petite Mort.
This initiative is a great way to continue a now constant creative bond between Chilean and Canadian artists and art platforms, a context in which Creatures I Saw is the first show at La Petite Mort Gallery featuring works made by a Chilean artist transversally in Canada, from developing to hanging, to opening the show, solidifying and extending the possibilities that this collaboration could hold for the future.
This Residency comes to part from an invitation made by Canadian artist Whitney Lewis-Smith to Felipe Bracelis, after meeting in Santiago de Chile. Lewis-Smith family has invited the Chilean artist to her family’s cottage in Bowman, Quebec, for a period of one month, where the artist will have time to get inspired and develop artwork within this given context. Bracelis will stay in incredible surroundings to get plenty inspiration.
La Petite Mort Gallery has presented Felipe an amazing opportunity and challenge… stepping out of the digital and video comfort zones and stepping into painting and drawing. The Bowman cottage studio will serve as a place of refuge and rest, and it is also where all the gathered objects, images and experiences will unveil themselves. The “creatures” go beyond the concept of animals of the forest, and it is actually a conceptualization of the ideas and subconscious forces that will guide the dialogue between artist-forest. The Creatures I saw are best described as the results of this whole experience, the works and the way they are placed in the gallery… what was seen and felt, what was stolen from the forest and became part of the artist, and that “ thing” that was left in the woods and will never reappear.
FELIPE BRACELIS
30/nov/1987
SANTIAGO, CHILE
EDUCATION
Plan Básico en Artes Plásticas, Universidad de Chile.Licenciatura en Artes Plásticas, Universidad de Chile.
Ayudante Prof. Cecilia Flores, 1er año Plan Basico en Artes, Universidad de Chile. 2009.
SOLO EXHIBITS
VALLE CENTRAL (2011) / Sala +18, Biblioteca de Santiago / Matucana 151, Santiago, Chile.
MESTIZO (2012) / Galeria Acuadrado / Condell 801 3er Piso, Providencia, Chile.
GROUP EXHIBITS
Utalca Arte Joven (2004) / Universidad de Talca / 2 norte 685 Talca, Chile.
Utalca Arte Joven (2005) / Universidad de Talca / 2 norte 685 Talca, Chile.
Arte en California (2009) / Rodrigo Cienfuego’s Apartment / California 2261 Providencia, Santiago, Chile.
YESSR1 (2010) / Auditorio Facultad de Artes Visuales Universidad de Chile / Las Encinas 3370, Santiago, Chile.
No Hay Respeto (2011) Felipe Bracelis, Felipe Rivas San Martin / Sala Jorge Müller UARCIS / Libertad 53, Santiago, Chile.
YESSR2 (2011) / Centro Cultural El Columpio Ecuador 382 Valparaíso, Chile / Sala +18, Biblioteca de Santiago Matucana 151, Santiago, Chile.
Joyas del Apocalipsis (2011) / Galería Ex Estar de ESCUELAB Calle Belén 1042 – Piso 5 – Lima 1 – Perú / La Casa Ida Nicolás de Piérola 767, Piso 03, Lima 01 – Perú / Bruno Gallery Calle Francia 565 B (Miraflores), Lima Perú / Galería Piloto Tegualda 1462. Providencia, Santiago, Chile. / Isla Flotante Av. Pueyrredón 1565, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Dildo Rosa Festival Internacional de Video Arte (2011) / Cine Capri / Santo Domingo 834, Santiago, Chile.
YESSR3 (2011) / Isla Flotante Av. Pueyrredón 1565, Buenos Aires, Argentina / Casa Brandon Luis María Drago 236, Buenos Aires, Argentina. / Galpon Chileno de las Artes Av. Bustamante 562, Santiago, Chile
YESSR4 (2012) / Buenos Aires @ Casa Brandon, Luis María Drago 236 / Santiago @ Sala +18, Biblioteca
de Santiago, Av.Matucana 151 / Ottawa @ La Petite Mort Gallery, 306 Cumberland Street.
INFINITO.GIF (2012) / Factoria Italia / Av. Italia 830, Santiago, Chile
Galeria Piloto (OFF.Chacoff) / Av. Italia 1194, Santiago , Chile
LLENAR EL ESPACIO VACIO (2012) / Design for Life Av. Condell 1050, Santiago, Chile
Somos Anfibios: Evoluciona o muere ! / Terminal 1 / Av. Italia 1449, Local 3, Santiago, Chile.
Emergencia Local (2012) / OFF.Chacoff / Galpon Chileno de las Artes / Av. Bustamante 562, Santiago, Chile
En Transito + Expo Residentes de Arte Usable Lab (2012)/ OFF.Chacoff / Merced 152, Santiago, Chile
TECNOSEXO (2012) / El Cuerpo Abierto (4ta. sesion) / Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano
Av. Condell 343, Providencia, Chile.
Cuajo – Presencias Crudas (2013) / Sala + 18 Biblioteca de Santiago, Ave. Matucana 151, Santiago, Chile.
PUBLICATIONS
Moxow Magazine – 10/09 – Barcelona, Spain.
Woof! Magazine – Issue 11, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Revista Sublime – Issue 2, Santiago, Chile.
Monocromo Artzine – Monocromo 10 – Morelia, México.
Ticket to Hell 7
YESSR1 – Santiago, Chile
Yessr Magazine Issue 1 www.yessr.cl/magazine.html
Yessr Magazine Issue 2
Yessr Magazine Issue 3
GENTE RARA 2 / Caracas, Venezuela / Photography Spread.
GENTE RARA 3 / Caracas, Venezuela / Interview + Article.
Monocromo Artzine – Monocromo 16 – Morelia, México.
Yessr Magazine Issue 4
GENTE RARA 4 / Caracas, Venezuela / Selected Work.
Cock au Soleil / Collaborative Fanzine between legrosmonsieur and other projects.
NYC Book Fair Oct. 2012
Se Busca Mecenas / Fanzine colaborativo con Felipe Rivas San Martin / Stgo., Chile
VANCOUVER ART BOOK FAIR, Oct. 2012
International Guest
Territorio Cultural – “Poeticas del Cuerpo y lo Abyecto” / Collaborative Fanzine / Santiago 01/2013
CURATORIAL WORK
Arte en California (2009) co- curated with Rodrigo Cienfuegos / Rodrigo Cienfuegos’s Apartment / California 2261 Providencia, Santiago, Chile.
YESSR1 (2010) curated / Auditorio Facultad de Artes Visuales Universidad de Chile / Las Encinas 3370, Santiago, Chile.
YESSR2 (2011) curated / Centro Cultural El Columpio Ecuador 382 Valparaíso, Chile / Sala +18, Biblioteca de Santiago Matucana 151, Santiago, Chile.
YESSR3 (2011) curated / Isla Flotante Av. Pueyrredón 1565, Buenos Aires, Argentina / Casa Brandon Luis María Drago 236, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
VALLE CENTRAL (2011) curated / Sala +18, Biblioteca de Santiago / Matucana 151, Santiago, Chile.
YESSR4 (2012) / Buenos Aires @ Casa Brandon, Luis María Drago 236 / Santiago @ Sala +18, Biblioteca
de Santiago, Av.Matucana 151 / Ottawa @ La Petite Mort Gallery, 306 Cumberland Street.
LLENAR EL ESPACIO VACIO (2012) / Design for Life Av. Condell 1050, Santiago, Chile
TECNOSEXO co-curated with Felipe Rivas/ El Cuerpo Abierto (4ta. sesion) / Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano Av. Condell 343, Providencia, Chile.
Encuentro de Fanzines y Ediciones Limitadas, Nov. 2012
Organizers: YESSR and Biblioteca de Santiago
FUTURE PROJECTS
YESSR Magazine Volumen 5 / Santiago / March 2013
II Encuentro de Fanzines @ Biblioteca de Santiago / April 2013
Proyecto Calle / Double show with Ivan Olivares / Date Unconfirmed
COLASH, Group show @ Biblioteca de Santiago /
July – August 2013
PAISAJISMO, Solo Show / Date Unconfirmed
YESSR 5 Pop DIGITAL / Group Show @ Chileno de las Artes / February 2013
YESR 6 Post Mortem / Group Show @ La Perrera & La Petite Mort Gallery.