Familiar/Ominous

Centro Cultural La Moneda and the The Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage invite you to visit Familiar/Ominous, an exhibition of contemporary photography that brings together works by thirteen Chilean artists from different generations and trajectories.

 Under the curatorship of Rita Ferrer, the exhibition investigates photography and its double condition: everyday image to which we have access and, at the same time, to be a sophisticated gear of algorithms that dislocates our certainties of what is real. Today, we are familiarized with photography, but not with its technological developments and complex operations that transfer it to a very different disciplinary regime from its digital stage, which poses new challenges for both artists and viewers. 

The selected works seek to account for the expansive photographic field in which we live. For this reason, the works displayed, range from documental registry through the use of analogue and digital photography, set designs that exacerbates illusion, the use of photo editing programs, to ephemeral performative acts that use digital photography as a document. With this selection, the curator addresses issues related to anthropological, social, environmental and conceptual problems situated in our context and inherent to our contemporary times: territories in crisis, hybrid bodies, monuments in “mourning” work, urban civic scenes, among others. 

This is the first of two exhibitions that will display the new acquisitions that were acquired during the pandemic by the Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage through a national call for acquisition of works in 2020 and which are currently part of the repository of Centro Nacional de Arte Contemporaneo Cerrillos.

Participating artists