Interview with Daniela Veneri in the RondóPILOT magazine / 2020

Dagmara Wyskiel. Courtesy of the artist.

Dagmara Wyskiel, Polish, PhD in Art from the University of Fine Arts in Krakow. She has made public interventions with performing objects in the Valley of Meteorites and at the ALMA astronomical observatory, both in the Atacama Desert; Laguna Amargo in Chilean Patagonia; an old Jewish neighborhood in Krakow; the British coast and the Port of Valparaiso. Likewise, she has made various interventions in the salt flats of the Argentinian Andes; in public spaces in Manizales, Medellín and Bogotá in Colombia; in London and Hastings in England; in Antofagasta, Coliumo and Castro in Chile; in the Great House of the People and in the Plaza Murillo in La Paz, Bolivia. She has participated in biennials in Russia and Poland. Her works have been exhibited in the National Museum of Art in Bolivia and in the Contemporary Art Space in Uruguay, among other galleries and museums in the United States, Spain, Poland, Chile, China, Mexico, Indonesia and Argentina. In 2016 she was awarded first place in the XVII Asian Biennial in Bangladesh, with the video Joint Game. Dagmara is co-founder of SE VENDE, collective that from its first exhibitions involved relevant artists, curators and experts from Chile and abroad. Later, these experiences gave birth to SACO Festival of Contemporary Art, an event that spreads contemporary art among new audiences in the north of Chile starting 2012. From 2016, she is also the coordinator of ISLA Center for Artist in Residence in Antofagasta.

Rabdomante de Joaquín Fargas (Argentina) en una de las salitreras abandonadas en el desierto, SACO8 (2019).

Preproducción de Rabdomante de Joaquín Fargas (Argentina) en uno de los acantilados del sector, SACO8 (2019).

Taller de profundización en fotografía contemporánea para la macro zona del Altiplano, dictado por Rodrigo Rovira, director del Festival Internacional de Fotografía de Valparaíso; escuela sin escuela de SACO8 (2019).

Chuquicamata, la mina a tajo abierto más grande del mundo, residencia arte+industria SACO8 (2019).