Ales Villegas

Ales Villegas was born in Quinta Normal (Santiago de Chile) in 1978 and grew up normal. She always wanted to fly in a gyroplane or live in an abandoned factory. From the time she was little she has wondered why people placed such importance on objects, thinking, of course, that people cannot live without objects. Objects make life simpler, or at least try to. She remembers the day when, unsure whether she was dreaming or awake, she found a place where objects went to die. It wasn't a cemetery, but a kind of limbo. And she has been wondering ever since why objects don't learn to die, why people don't take anything with them when they die, what the word is that describes the precise moment when the subject forgets the object. Typical questions of adolescence. She studied areas related to her interests, such as industrial design and architecture in the University of Chile, but she was expelled from both and condemned to ostracism. At that fateful moment she recalled two lessons: the first was how to use a utility knife and paperboard, and second, that no one could explain to her why people tend to just describe and classify. She read fragments of Benjamin, Foucault, Freud, and Baudrillard along with Bradbury, Moore, Ware, Calvino, and...

2003 - 2008
BA in FINE ARTS, specializing in Sculpture
Universidad Arcis. Santiago, Chile.

2000 – 2002
ARCHITECTURE
Universidad de Chile. Santiago, Chile.

1998
DESIGN
Universidad de Chile. Santiago, Chile.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2009, SPATIAL BATTLE, Die Ecke Gallery. Santiago, Chile.
2008, SPATIAL BATTLE, in the former apartment of the artist. Providencia Santiago, Chile.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012, “O Tridimensional no Acervo do MAC: Uma Antologia”, MAC USP, Parque do Ibirapuera, Brasil.
2012, “Contaminaciones Contemporáneas”, MAC Forestal, Santiago, Chile.
2012, “Cocktail de estrellas”, Meridion Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2010,  “Contaminaciones Contemporáneas”, MAC-USP, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
2010, “Agosto 2026”, Concreta Gallery, Matucana 100. Santiago, Chile.
2010, “Fragmentos de Orden”, Espacio Pabla Ugarte Arte Contemporáneo. Santiago, Chile.
2008, “Tesis 2007-2008”, Factoría Cultural Center, Universidad Arcis. Santiago, Chile.