Research artist in the fields of memory, identity and migration
Title: I am & art&fiction
With: art&fiction, Marisa Cornejo
Curated by: art&fiction
Venue: Le Labo, Boulevard Saint-Georges 5, 1205 Genève
Dates: 27.11.–30.11.2013
Présentation du livre I am, inventaire de rêves de Marisa Cornejo et des éditions art&fiction.
Artist: Eugenio Cornejo
Curators: Marisa Cornejo and Bernardo de Castro
Workshop: Engraving for the public with the help of engraver Lola Arias
Venue: Casa Memoria José Domingo Cañas, Santiago, Chile
Date: 01.11.–30.11.2013
For the exhibition El Ancestro ( The Ancestor), Cornejo brings back to Chile in a portafolio by plane the graphic materials her father produced in exile to exhibit them in Casa Memoria José Domingo Cañas. This place with an emblematic story and few blocks from her family home was used as a secret prison by the D.I.N.A. (Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional) from 1974 until the end of the Pinochet regime in 1990. There people lost their lives after being tortured, 43 people “disappeared” until now and the atrocities commited there are beyond human comprehension. Before having being transformed into a detention centre, Casa Memoria used to be a normal house in Ñuñoa, a middle class neighbourhood of Santiago de Chile. Once the dictatorial regime of Augusto Pinochet finished it took more than 10 years of social struggle of human right activists resisting gentrification to transform this place into a memorial public space.
El Ancestro is the first exhibition of the graphic production of Eugenio Cornejo (1940-2002) kept for 35 years in a personal archive in exile produced as an affective artistic practice for memory and justice. His graphic work in this place gives voice to the silenced victims building a new layer of knowledge and meaning to our story.
The exhibition El Ancestro was produced with the help of Bernardo de Castro and the support of my mother and his wife Nora Gatica Krug.
The exhibition was finished with an engraving workshop were collectivelly the public reprinted some of Eugenio’s engraving plates with the help of artist Lola Arias putting in action a transgenerational reparation practice.
Title: Safe Haven / Refugio Seguro / Refuge Sûr
Artists: Giulia Cilla, Marisa Cornejo, Galería Daniel Moron, Bernardo Oyarzún, Leonardo Portus, Cristián Valenzuela, Ingrid Wildi Merino et Ximena Zomosa
Curated by: Marisa Cornejo
Special thanks: Stephanie Prizreni, Nelson Bustamante, Marie Hélène Griffon, Janis Schroeder, Sophie Pagliai, Nora Gatica, Eduardo Cruces, Ingrid Wildi Merino, Jenny Bettancourt, Roxane Bovet, CCC Master Program – HEAD (Haute Ecole d’art et Design), Act-art et la Loterie Romande.
Venue: Espace Kugler, Genève, Suisse
Dates: 21.09.–10.10.2013
L’exposition Safe Haven / Refugio Seguro / Refuge Sûr à l’Espace Kugler à Genève nous invite à porter notre réflexion sur le 40ème anniversaire du coup d’état au Chili. À cette occasion, l’artiste et curatrice Marisa Cornejo invite huit artistes chiliens dont le travail est basé sur le thème de la mémoire dans le Chili actuel, en relation avec le fait que ce pays est devenu un « REFUGE SÛR » (a regional safe haven). Le but de cette réunion est d’exposer leurs œuvres à Genève, cité des banques, des bunkers antinucléaires et des Droits de l’Homme. Paradoxalement, depuis le coup d’état, le Chili s’est converti en un refuge sûr pour les investisseurs, il est considéré comme le meilleur de l’Amérique Latine. Le Chili est en même temps un modèle de développement qui prive la majorité de sa population de l’accès à un travail bien rémunéré et stable, à une éducation égalitaire et à des services de santé et sécurité sociale décents.
Bernardo Oyarzún, Cristián Valenzuela, Ingrid Wildi Merino, Leonardo Portus et Ximena Zomosa, artistes qui ont grandi sous le régime dictatorial de Pinochet, exposeront leurs stratégies de résistance à l’oubli à travers leur pratique artistique. L’artiste suisse-uruguayenne Giulia Cilla présentera un travail de mémoire affective sur son pays qui commémore aussi 40 ans de l’irruption d’un régime militaire qui écrase toute opposition démocratique à l’instar de l’ensemble du Cône Sud du continent.
Title: Descent and return, 2013, rug, objects, collage
Exhibition: S.A.S. Escale à la Jonction
Artists: Christine Boillat, Crystel Ceresa, Marisa Cornejo, Elodíe Delomier, Angela Marzullo, Noha Mokhtar, Vania Repond, Lucía Mure, Cécile N’Duhirhae and Sahar Suliman
Curated by: Élodíe Delomier
Venue: Cheminée Nord, Geneva, Switzerland
Dates: 16.05.–15.06.2013
For this exhibition Cornejo uses a silhouette carved in an persian rug of the playboy icon Jane Mansfield to raise questions around feminism and decoloniality. Jayne Mansfield (April 19, 1933 – June 29, 1967) was an American actress in film, theatre, and television, a nightclub entertainer, a singer, and one of the early Playboy Playmates. She was a major Hollywood sex symbol of the 1950’s and early 1960’s. Mansfield was 20th Century Fox’s alternative to fill the big emptiness Marilyn Monroe had left and came to be known as the Working Man’s Monroe. In the society of the spectacle, the hunger of the market needed a new celebrity, Jane Mansfield’s flesh and spirit was exploited as any other woman in our system of production and reproducción of the patriarchal status quo that wants to reach progress at any cost. After succeeding like a comet she had the commun decline some celebrities suffer and died drunk in a car accident with her whole family. When the society of the spectacle got bored of her and wanted to dispose her like and old carpet, she became a desperate mess playing with satanism, drugs, alcohol and sex.
In 1995, I used her silhouette without knowing her biography to make a floor carpet in an exhibition called Hogar Dulce Hogar, in La Panadería in Mexico City, art critics, public and all stepped on her. Seventeen years later in Geneva I am using her silhouette again but as an homage to all women that get used like carpets and as an acceptance of all cycles of life we need to go trough to love ourselves. M. C.
Group show: 450 women have been murdered in Ciudad Juarez
Artists: Erica Arce, Marisa Cornejo, Melissa Ehrenreic, Irene Gennaro, Jain Hutzell, Nefertiti Kelle- Farias, Lydia Martin, Ryan Sarah Murphy, Heloisa Pomfret, Favianna Rodriguez, Dorothy Simpson Krause, Izel Vargas and Patricia Yossen.
Curated by: Keith Miller
Venue: SAC Gallery, Stony Brook University, New York, USA.
Dates: 02.10.–04.11.2007
Title: Je t’aime beaucoup, reading/installation
Text: Miguel D. Norambuena
Proposed by: Marcela San Pedro and Marisa Cornejo
With: Marisa Cornejo, Pascal Desarzins and Sara Oswald (cellists)
Exhibition: Performances en chambre
Venue: Villa Bernasconi, Geneva, Switzerland
Date: 07.02.–09.02.2007
Works: We were all equals, ink and sequins on paper, 30x42cm, 2004. Documental, ink and sequins on paper, 32x40cm, 2003
Exhibition: Pour le droit de vivre en paix. Hommage au chanteur chilien Victor Jara
Artists: Roxana Alvarado, Monica Cantillana, Eduardo Cereceda, Lao Cordoba, Luis Gutiérrez, Juan Hannon, Yita Henriquez, Marisa Cornejo, María Cecilia Coll, Erwin Díaz and Adriana Chihuailaf
Opening: 14.05.2006 – In presence of General Poblete, one of the two generals who refused to participate in the Coup d’Etat in Chile in 1973
Venue: Les Chiroux, Centre Culturel de Liège, Belgique
Dates: 15.04–06.05.2006
Artists: Marisa Cornejo, Carlos Gómez, Andreas Von Gehr, Carlos Ruiz and Thierry Deffert.
Curated by: Natalia Arcos
Venue: Maus Hábitos, Espaço de Intervenção Cultural,
Rua Passos Manuel 178, 4º, 4000-382 Porto, Portugal
Date: November 2003
Schematization of Exquisite Emigrants:
1:: Marisa Cornejo — Emigration > Identity: The Self in the Other > romantic relationships > altered drawings and photographs > baroque, dispersed arrangement of the work > overflow encouraged by Mexicanism.
2:: Andreas von Gehr — Immigration > Identity: The Self in the Father > family relationships > digital photography and installation > contained, calculated arrangement of the work according to rules of perspective > rationalism characteristic of the German prototype.
3:: Carlos Gómez — Emigration > Identity: The Self in My Environment > professional relationships of fellowship and competition > painting and objects > horizontal arrangement of the work with object-based elements allowing spatial and semantic openness.
Title: Nacimientos navideños. Hechos por artistas de Vanguardia
Artists: Pablo Vargas Lugo, Katia Duregon, Miguel Calderón, Artemio, Adriana Días de Cossio, Marisa Cornejo, Joshua Okon, Taca, Daniela Rossel and Rodrigo Aldana
Venue: La Panadería, Amsterdan 159, Col. Condesa, México D.F., México
Date: 17 December 1997
Installation: Modulo de información, collection of photoraphs on cilinder, 160x250cm, 1997
Exhibition: Diálogo México-Tijuana
Artists: Marisa Cornejo, Saúl Cortéz, Andrea Ferreira, Jonathan Hernandez, Rocío Ortega y Vicente Razo
Venue: Centro Cultural de Tijuana, Tijuana, México
Date: November 1997
