Francisco Braithwaite

1985, Santiago de Chile. Also known as Asma Brath.

Since 2007 i have been working on making collages of different formats and techniques, both digital and analogous, particularly using the concept of fragmentation, which is usually defined as the separation of a whole or the loss of a unit by the division into irregular parts of a kind of puzzle, the artist re-organize the pieces in the space to give a new meaning to the image.
During this creative process, chance plays a fundamental role, as when a vase is broken into a thousand different pieces: although we try to reconstruct it incessantly, piece by piece, something has changed and it is no longer possible to return it to its original form, something new. A mysterious and indecipherable mechanism has turned the object into something else, whose functionality could be appreciated only in the realm of art, not in the daily routine.
In the selection that involves the exercise of taking a segment of the real world to introduce it to the world of art, it is possible to observe the implicit beauty of the images of interest and, at that key moment, arises the doubt, the risk that involves the sacrifice O...

Graduated from the School of Cinema of Chile, with mention in art direction. (2003/2007). In the cinematographic field he has worked as director and screenwriter (Edad de piedra, Narau-O) and as an actor (You think the most beautiful, but you are the most whore, interpretation that earned him the Pedro Sienna Prize). As a television actor he has participated in the series Peleles and in the medium-length film La carta.
Also he worked Special Effects director in the film Visceral: between the roaps of madness (2012).

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“Las desventuras de Dolores Haze”, Galería Banco Negro (Santiago de Chile, january 2014).
"Las fauces de Erzsébet Báthory", Galería Radicales (Santiago de Chile, february 2016).
"El reflejo de Snell", Galería Radicales (Santiago de Chile, june 2016).