AQUÍ / Utopías neo-barrocas / Alta Costura

Miguel Parra Urrutia's textile work proposes alternative genealogies, revalues ancestral knowledge and is part of a critique of the extractivist logics of global capitalism, as well as its correlate in fast fashion and programmed obsolescence. In its material, political and symbolic dimension, the textile becomes a territory of struggle, memory and transformation. His work with textile waste and recovered materials operates as an archaeology of the present, giving new life to the discarded, making the invisible visible, connecting excess with scarcity and luxury with loss. 

In this aspect that the artist has been developing for several decades, a series of works are presented where the material, the act of embroidery (care, repetition, error, repair), the reverse, the ironic quotation, the popular, the sacred and the kitsch reopen questions about the body, work, time and matter.

Miguel Parra Urrutia

Miguel Parra Urrutia is a Chilean artist who emigrated to Paris in 1996, after being the object of political persecution as a result of his work denouncing, supporting and defending human rights in Chilean society. In Paris, he continues to develop various projects of artistic expression with different social groups: sex workers, migrant youth, child victims of institutional violence and adults living with HIV.

His work, vast and multiform, includes painting, graphics, drawing, textile art, video art, installation, urban spatial intervention, performance and contemporary dance. Currently, he continues to develop several simultaneous projects, focused on contemporary and social issues: planetary circulation and emigration, human rights, identity processes as a social dynamic, biography and memory aesthetics, proletarian science fiction, epistemology and social anthropology. In 2000 he obtained a DEA, a type of higher education diploma, from the University of Paris in Visual Arts with a mention of excellence. He studied Contemporary Art at the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Jeu de Paume national gallery and Art History at the school of the Louvre. He holds a DEA in Social Psychopathology, a diploma from the Faculty of Science of the University of Paris and is a teacher of Hatha Vinyasa Yoga.