“Cuidado Personal”
ADA Projects: Dominique Bradbury & Agustina Jarpa
OMA Galería (Santiago, Chile)
June 2024
For this project, Bradbury extends an invitation to Jarpa to develop an interdisciplinary dialogue centered in beauty, consumption habits, and self-care rituals related to physical well-being. Under this framework, ADA Projects is born: a collaboration between art and architecture. Through paintings, digital prints, and objects, the show translates experiences of contemporary society with a fragmentary and metonymic vision. The collaboration brings my pictorial investigations into new contexts, complemented by Jarpa's object-based interpretations of the research. Located in the hybrid setting of MUT (which features commercial spaces and offices), the exhibition "Cuidado Personal" allows the artwork and context to organically converge. It explores the boundaries between an art gallery and a store, as well as the definitions of useful objects, decorative items, and art pieces.
image credits: @fugalde
“Instrucciones”
Solo show at TIM Arte Contemporáneo
Santiagom Chile
January 2024
This exhibition comes from my ongoing interest in consumerism and capitalism, using images from my personal algorithm and archives that relate to fashion, beauty, and wellness industries. The works—a combination of oil on canvas and digital prints—form a fragmented narrative touching on personal observations, digital encounters, and reflections on femininity and art history archetypes. I experimented with installation by adopting elements from fashion stores (shelves, hangers, backlit images), playing with their scale and functionality. This new spatiality proposes a critical and complicit dialogue between different artistic languages and contexts. The design of “Oversize II”, a large scale hanger, was thought as a ‘curved skeleton’ that would activate the space and artworks and refer to luxury fashion “concept stores”. With its XL presence and its shape resembling a hanger, it ironically to extreme fashion trends.
image credits: @fugalde
