VESTIARIO
Dominique Bradbury
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo MAC, sede Quinta Normal (Santiago, Chile)
April - August 2026
In building her body of work, Dominique Bradbury has obsessively returned to elements commonly labeled as “feminine.” Her practice captures a present that seeps through details, trends, fashion, and skincare routines. This present collides with the past of The Lady with the Fan (ca. 1885–1887), a work from the MAC Collection with which Bradbury chose to enter into dialogue. More precisely, the dialogue is with its author, Alfredo Valenzuela Puelma, whose paintings belong to a tradition in which women primarily serve as “muses.” In this case, the muse was Carlina Garrido, the artist’s wife.
Garrido has large eyes and a calm gaze directed straight at the viewer. However, what most captivated Bradbury was her attire: earrings, a blue dress with a floral pattern, long suede gloves, and the fan that gives the painting its title. Dressed according to the fashion of her time, she enables a temporal convergence. Vestiario thus stages a play between a catalogue that describes and represents real or imagined women, and a collection of clothing and accessories that construct those fictions.
Proyecto Financiado por el Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Cultural y las Artes, ámbito nacional de financiamiento Convocatoria 2026.
LABOR
Dominique Bradbury
Colorado Projects (Leipzig, Germany)
January - February 2026
LABOR brings together a new series of paintings that draw on images from fashion, pop culture, and the beauty industry. Fragments of faces, denim, and self-maintenance rituals point toward systems of image circulation and consumption — filtered through a lens of performance and artifice.
Like an accidental Instagram scroll, what does Ariana Grande, an eye-makeup tutorial, and Empress Elisabeth have in common? Perhaps only what we, as viewers, choose to give them. In LABOR, physical and aesthetic work intertwine symbolically and poetically, reflecting how the performance of femininity is a complex constellation of compliance and resistance — of repetition, devotion, fatigue, and eventual exhaustion.
“I dress for the image,” Marlene Dietrich famously declared. Through surface and material, LABOR traces the politics of appearance: how images are never neutral, how ideals of beauty are shaped by sociopolitical contexts where desire, consumption, and aspiration blur into one another.
Painting becomes both server and counterpart: What does it mean to extract images from an infinite digital archive and give them poetic materiality? Perhaps simply to look — to remove them from their context and take a moment to reflect on the ritual you performed this morning. Between desire and exhaustion, image and body, LABOR reveals beauty as something made: a practice, a performance, and ultimately, a form of work.
GLICERINA
Dominique Bradbury & Agustina Jarpa
Judas Galería y Centro de Arte Baños el Almendro CABA (Valparaíso, Chile)
March - April 2026
Glicerina is an exhibition project developed through research and production for Judas Gallery and Centro de Arte Baños del Almendro in Cerro Concepción, Valparaíso.
It continues a collaboration between Bradbury and Jarpa that began in 2023, exploring contemporary habits of self-care, hygiene, beauty, and consumption through an interdisciplinary approach. The project reinterprets everyday objects and rituals—such as washing, moisturizing, and grooming—as carriers of identity, gender narratives, and affect, while also addressing questions of access to public and private sanitation infrastructures.
Presented across two contrasting sites—a former public women’s bathhouse and a domestic residential space—the exhibition creates a dialogue between public and private spheres, inviting visitors to move between them.
Glycerin, a versatile substance found in cosmetics, medicine, cleaning, and food, operates as the central metaphor linking the works and ideas.
Proyecto Financiado por el Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Cultural y las Artes, ámbito nacional de financiamiento Convocatoria 2025.
CUIDADO PERSONAL
Dominique Bradbury & Agustina Jarpa
OMA Galería (Santiago, Chile)
June - July 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.
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.
∾View catalogue / Ver catálogo
∾Read / Leer El desorden de nuestros ojos, por Diego Maureira
∾Video / Video exposición
∾Artist talk / Conversatorio
Proyecto Financiado por el Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Cultural y las Artes, ámbito nacional de financiamiento Convocatoria 2023
