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Mesa compartida

El juego de mesa en Chile

10:15 a 18:45 horas Galería del Diseño
Octubre 16, 2025 - Marzo 08, 2026
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Julia Toro

Huellas y desplazamientos

10:15 a 18:45 horas Galería de Fotografía
Agosto 20, 2025 - Marzo 01, 2026
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Cineteca Nacional de Chile

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Julia Toro

Traces and Displacements

Centro Cultural La Moneda and the Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio invite you to explore the exhibition Julia Toro: Traces and Displacements. Curated by Mariairis Flores Leiva, the exhibition offers an intimate and personal perspective of the acclaimed artist Julia Toro Donoso, recipient of the 2024 Premio Antonio Quintana (Antonio Quintana Award) for her career in photography.

Featuring 50 works—many previously unseen—captured between 1973 and 1987 across various regions of Chile, the exhibition reflects on everyday fragments of the country’s recent history. Through black-and-white analog photography, Toro transforms domestic spaces into creative territories, capturing small moments that, during the dictatorship, wove the fabric of a society seeking reconnection. As Mariairis Flores notes, these images “escape political violence to focus on the small yet significant scenes that shaped daily life.”

About the Artist

Julia Toro (Talca, 1933) is a photographer and visual artist. She studied drawing and painting with Adolfo Couve, Carmen Silva, and Thomas Daskam. Beginning her photographic work at the age of 39, Toro explores themes of eroticism and domestic life, while also portraying key figures of the Chilean art scene.

She has published several photography books, including Amor x Chile (Love for Chile, Ocho Libros, 2011), Hijos (Children, La Visita, 2018), and Diarios. Julia Toro (Diaries. Julia Toro, Lumen, 2022). Toro has received numerous recognitions: Premio PAM, Fundación Antenna, 2020; Premio Plagio a la Creatividad Artística, Fundación Plagio, 2024; and Premio Antonio Quintana, 2024.

About the Curator

Mariairis Flores Leiva (Marchigüe, 1990) holds a Master’s degree in Art Theory and History from the Universidad de Chile. She is the curator of Espacio218 and a contributor to Artforum and Artishock magazines. She has co-edited the book Mujeres en las artes visuales en Chile 2010–2020 (Women in the Visual Arts in Chile 2010–2020) and has participated in major projects, including research for the retrospective Lotty Rosenfeld: Intersections of Memory (2023–2024). She is also the author of Bajo el signo mujer: Exhibitions by Chilean Women Artists, 1973–1991 (2024).

About the Award

Antonio Quintana Award | Inspired by the renowned Chilean photographer Antonio Quintana, this award, created in 2016, recognizes individuals with over 15 years of professional experience who have made a significant and sustained contribution to photography in Chile. Previous recipients include Luis Poirot (2016) and Marcelo Montecino (2017).

In 2024, the award was granted to Julia Toro Donoso, considered one of the most outstanding exponents of Chilean photography. At 90 years old, she remains active, focusing on studio portraiture and other bibliographic and audiovisual projects. The jury highlighted her “exceptional quality of a body of work whose uniqueness articulates the universal through the personal.”

Coordinates
From August 20, 2025
10:15 a.m. to 6:45 p.m.
Photograpy Gallery | Level -3
Free admission
Image ©Julia Toro. Maturana (1979)

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