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Sophie Halart completed her PhD in 2017. Her doctoral thesis investigated the production of Argentine and Chilean artists from the 1970s up to now. Examining the surface - both material and symbolical - of their works it articulated an "epidermal aesthetics", paying particular attention to the topos of skin as a site of resistance against political authoritarianism and gender determinism. Sophie is now an Assistant Professor in History of Art at the University Adolfo Iba帽ez (Chile) where her current research deals with maternity and materiality in Chilean contemporary art. 听She is the co-editor of the book听Sabotage Art: Politics and Iconoclasm in Contemporary Latin America听(IB Tauris, 2016).
Thesis
Epidermal Aesthetics: Skin and the Feminine in Argentine and Chilean Contemporary Art (1973-present)
Research Interests
Latin American Art History. Modern and Contemporary Art. Feminism and art in the context of the Southern Cone dictatorships with a particular focus on gendered readings of the body and skin. Materiality, Conceptual Art and Conceptualism(s). Maternity.
Publications
2019 (forthcoming). 鈥淐arne y hueso: las mil vidas del cuerpo en la obra de Carmen Beuchat鈥�, Cuerpo y Visualidad. Archivo Carmen Beuchat. Santiago: Ediciones Metales Pesados.听
2018 (forthcoming). 鈥淒oubling the Odds: Pregnancy, Femininity and Embodiment in Nicola Costantino鈥檚 Trailer (2010)鈥�, (Mary Edwards, ed.), The Double in Western Art, 1850-2010. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland.
2018. 鈥淟iliana Porter鈥檚 Wrinkle鈥�, In Focus, Tate Research.
2016. "Cogs and Clogs: Sabotage as Noise in post-1960s Chilean and Argentine Art and Art History", (Sophie Halart and Mara Polgovsky, eds.), Sabotage Art: Politics and Iconoclasm in Contemporary Latin America, New York - London: I.B. Tauris.
2014. 鈥淐onceptualism鈥�, 鈥淐uban Renaissance鈥�, 鈥淢exican Muralism鈥�, 鈥淎rte Mad铆鈥�, in Art in Time. A World History of Styles and Movements. London: Phaidon.
2014. "Precarious Matters: Conceptualism and Materiality in Chile and Argentina", Camila Maroja and Caroline Menezes (eds.),听The Permanence of the Transient: Precariousness in Art. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publisher.
2014. "La Piel de las Cosas: Mutaciones Epid茅rmicas en la Pintura de Roser Bru", Soledad Garc铆a (ed.)听Tercer Concurso de Ensayos: Pr谩cticas y discursos en las Artes Visuales de los '70 y '80 en Chile. Santiago: LOM Ediciones.
2014. "Eva-Argentina: Una Met谩fora Contempor谩nea. Review of the Argentine Pavilion at the 55th Biennale de Venezia".听Object听(16).
2012. "El arte de performance en Chile: la herencia de la Escena de Avanzada y la nueva generaci贸n", Observatorio Cultural, Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes, Departamento de Estudios (May).听
Conference presentations (selected)
Mater chilensis: toward a maternal re-reading of the Chilean neo-avant-garde鈥�, Decolonizing Third World Feminism: Latin American Women Artists (1960-1980), Haus der Kunst, Munich, 6 July 2018.
鈥�A Water of a Hundred Eyes: Reconfiguring liquidity in recent Chilean contemporary art鈥�, Liquid Ecologies in the Arts pre-publication workshop, University of Barcelona, 22 May 2018.
鈥�A Water of a Hundred Eyes: Liquidity and Ecofeminism in Contemporary Chilean art鈥�, Conference Eco-Imaginaries and the Borders of Art Practice from/in Latin America: migration, activism, and identity, 听Cambridge University, 8 March 2018.
鈥淢ater Chilensis. Accounting for the 鈥楳aternal Turn鈥� in Chilean contemporary art鈥�, Panel: Between the Personal and Political: Women鈥檚 Self/Conscious Creative Practices in Latin America), LASA Annual Conference, Lima, Peru, 29 April 鈥� 1 May 2017.
鈥淟补蝉 Altas Esferas de Liliana Maresca: (des-)vestir y (des-) bordar las im谩genes del poder en la Argentina pos-dictatorial鈥�, VI International Symposium of Aesthetics Est茅ticas del poder y contra-poder de la imagen en Am茅rica, Pontificia Universidad Cat贸lica de Chile, 19 鈥� 21 October 2016.
鈥淔luides, flux, avant-garde: la symbolique du lait dans l鈥檃rt contemporain chilien鈥�, Conference Po茅tiques du Lait, University of Geneva, 7 鈥� 8 June 2016.听
鈥淒oubling the Odds: Pregnancy, Femininity and the Other in Nicola Costantino鈥檚 Trailer (2010)鈥�, Panel: Two for One: Doppelg盲ngers, Alter Egos, Reflected Images, and Other Duples in Western Art: 1900-2000, CAA Annual conference. New York, 11 鈥� 14 February 2015.
鈥淪abo-tag# - Stories of conceptualism and materiality in Latin American contemporary art鈥�. Symposium Sabotage: (Self-) Destructive Practices in Latin American Contemporary Art. University College London, 26 April 2013.听
鈥淎 Tactility of Dissent : Queer Artistic Interventions in Pinochet鈥檚 Chile鈥�. Symposium What About the Gaze: Queer Lens and Visibility in Art History. Cornell University, 4 鈥� 5 November 2011.
Conference/ Event Organizer
Panel Precarious Materialities and Artistic Production, co-organized with Mara Polgovsky, LASA Annual Conference, Puerto Rico, 27-30 May 2015.
Panel Making Do: Materiality in the Conceptual Age, co-organized with Mara Polgovsky, 40th AAH Annual Conference). Royal College of Art, London. 10-12 April 2014.
Symposium Sabotage: (Self-) Destructive Practices in Latin American Contemporary Art, co-organized with Mara Polgovsky, University College London, 26 April 2013.