Manuela Viera-Gallo
“For the last two decades I have been preoccupied with visual narratives that are shaped through a distinctively feminie voice often trying to understand the correlation between instincts, reality and morality.”
Chilean artist living and working in New York.
Manuela Viera-Gallo was born during her parents’ exile in Rome, Italy. Her point of view has been strongly
shaped by the social and political violence that has affected the history of most Latin American countries and by a constant state of migration. As a consequence Viera Gallo’s work engages preoccupations, anxieties and fears derived from her own experience. Her artistic practice presents a multidisciplinary body of work that departs from absurdity to manipulate and distort known symbols and imagery into an allegorical, fantastical and darkly comical framework that allows her to take ownership of the subsequent transformation to analyze different processes of political and social instability.
Manuela Viera-Gallo’s last works focuses on her experiences with inequality (from her own history as a Chilean born in exile) and attempts to disassemble patriarchal systems in political and civic arenas. In her paintings, she uses anonymity to highlight a multitude of voices that challenge stereotypes in the traditional representation of women.