BIO
Débora Caro Reyes (Concepción, 1994) is a Chilean artist who graduated with a degree in Visual Arts from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (2018). At the same university, she pursued a diploma in "Photography: Editorial Project"and undertook various photography assistantships in the Faculty of Arts, which has allowed her to diversify her artistic work by exploring the concepts and applications of the photobook.
She has participated in various collective exhibitions both nationally and internationally, including: finalist in the 11th Edition of the Arte Laguna Prize in Venice, Italy (2017); "When the Body Transgresses the Norm" at Espacio Vilches, Santiago (2018); 5th Young Artist University Contest, MAC (2017); 12th edition of the Florence Biennale, Fortezza da Basso, Florence, Italy, among others. In 2023, she held her first solo exhibition, "What was not, will not be", at Galería Gabriela Mistral.
With her editorial projects, she has participated in various photobook and artist book fairs, including: “Stgo Foto – Santiago Photobook Fair” at the Centro Cultural La Moneda; “Anniversary of Fotoanalogacl” at La Planta center; “Ch.ACO Publishing Fair” at Movistar Arena; and “Tinta Arte Impreso” at the UC Oriente Campus.
STATEMENT
Débora Caro Reyes works with autobiographical aesthetics, which have been marked by existing machismo and all those common patterns inherently present in domestic violence in a psychological form. In this way, she focuses on the dynamics within the household, the way it affects childhood and its progression into adulthood. She evaluates both the physical and psychological consequences and their impact on the body: spatial perceptions and the distortions caused by confinement. These become normalized due to the dysfunctional context. This is how she allows the concept of distance to function as something fundamental through contact with other cultures and their specific experiences, in order to acquire different perspectives that reveal these blind and cloistered dynamics.
With her work, she creates a language of response to trauma, an attempt to break the normalization on a social and personal level. She seeks to give it materiality, to occupy the space that art provides her to confront and evidence it.