Soledad Carvajal Rivera

Landscape Architect and Sculptor

 1983 – Graduated as Architect, Universidad de Chile.
 1990 – Graduated as Landscape Architect, Inacap.
 1991 – Classes graduate program in Landscape at the Universidad Católica de Chile.
 1998 – Sculpture classes at the Workshop “Consuelo de la Maza”.
 2000 – First place in sculpture contest by the I. Municipalidad de Providencia.
 2004 – Graduated from Escuela de Arte Universidad Católica de Chile, mention in sculpture.

Exhibitions:

• October 2000.  First place sculpture contest, Parque de las Esculturas Municipalidad de Providencia.
• September 2002. Collective exhibition at the Candil, workshop of Consuelo de la Maza.
• January 2007.  “Caminando con el Arte”, Centro Extensión UC.
• May 2007.  “100 años Frida”, Cultural de Las Condes.

The main purpose of her work is to reflect the human figure as a conceptual form, with a strong emphasis of irony and symbolisms; this way she transmits the emptiness of man in her “character-armor” and “character-clothes”, projecting only the exterior or shell; in contrasts with the intern emptiness, the no being but the might be.

Her work shouts the absence of soul and identity in the human being, only reflecting our shell. It is a great metaphor to the life emptiness of the human nowadays. 

The materials used are the porcelain gres, iron, oxides, enamel, and ceramic paper. This last one, is a new technique learned that combines the clay in the form of gres and paper, resulting in lighter and flexible works.