Aninat & Swinburn

            The art duo Aninat & Swinburn is the product of the encounter between two established artists: Teresa Aninat and Catalina Swinburn. In 2002, they founded this collective distinguished by its work with installations, photographs, sculptures, and performances. Prolific artists, both collectively and individually, in 2013 they were awarded by the Circle of Art Critics of Chile for their exhibition "Arqueología Anticipada" in the New Media category. Framed within a practice known as site-specific, these artists consider that, in a unique interrelationship with space, it is the place where the work is mounted that ultimately completes it.

            In addition to being a collective, Teresa Aninat and Catalina Swinburn share a starting point in their education: both studied Visual Arts at the Catholic University of Chile. They both found in that space an opportunity for experimentation with various languages ​​that resulted in artistic productions where the intersection between the sacred and the popular, the conceptual and the experiential, humor and judgment are at play. Their works emerge as syncretic discourses that fuse diverse traditions to showcase processes of transculturation and mestizaje, as well as merging diverse elements and materials such as Spanish playing cards, the wheel of fortune, chocolate coins, maps, engraved stones, books, texts, and diary fragments creating a synergy from which a unique identity emerges.

            In the work of Aninat & Swinburn, the theme of memory is a common thread from which a cohesive narrative is constructed, focusing on spirituality, nostalgia, tradition, aesthetics, and the effects of globalization. The monumentality of their installations not only seeks to transcend a human scale but also to surpass a certain solemnity. Thus, the works become inhabitable spaces that the viewer can traverse, an invitation to interact in an emotional way and establish a connection that transcends the thresholds of the physical and the sensory.