Claudia Vásquez Gómez
Visual artist

AHORA. Santiago, Chile. 2025-2026

Selected Works 2007–2022 Solo Exhibition · Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC), Universidad de Chile · Santiago A survey of land art, performance and audiovisual works developed across Chile’s  most extreme territories — from Antarcticbases and Patagonian channels to the Atacama  Desert, Puerto Williams and the lakes of southern Chile. Across fifteen years of situated practice, […]

Camino a Montegrande, a propósito de Francisco Varela. Valle del Elqui,Chile. 2024

  Since 2006, Claudia Vásquez has developed a body of work informed by the thought of Chilean biologist, philosopher, and Buddhist thinker Francisco Varela (1946–2001). Concepts such as impermanence, memory, and experience have become central to the material and conceptual development of her practice. This project unfolds as a journey through the Elqui Valley, combining […]

Research about the wind : Georgetown. Georgetown, Guyana. 2022

Landscape intervention and collaborative performance developed in Georgetown, Guyana, as part of the 51st anniversary of bilateral relations between Chile and the Cooperative Republic of Guyana. The project unfolded in two stages: a workshop with Guyanese art students exploring and making visible the coastal wind near Georgetown, followed by a collective performance created with scenic […]

Casa de Fuerza. Pozo Almonte, Chile. 2022

Humberston Saltpeter Office. Pozo Almonte. Chile. Performance using a gray silk dress. Performance developed at the Humberstone Saltpeter Works in the Atacama Desert, using a gray silk dress as the central element of the action. The work explores the material and human memory of the saltpeter industry, Chile’s main economic activity between 1880 and 1930, […]

Every travel is a travel. Moscú * San Petersburgo* Omsk. Rusia. 2021

Video recording of the Trans-Siberian railway route between Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Omsk, and Moscow. Filmed in 2018 and edited in Santiago de Chile during the COVID-19 pandemic. Duration: 4 min 49 sec.   Registro en video del recorrido del tren Transiberiano entre San Petersburgo, Moscú, Omsk y Moscú. Grabada en 2018 y editada en Santiago […]

Field Writing: EXPERIMENTOS. Puerto Williams, Chile. 2021

Field Writing: EXPERIMENTOS.

Omora Park. Puerto Williams, Chile. Ephemeral writing of a quote from Charles Darwin (1809-1889): “I love silly experiments, that’s why I’m always doing them”, using edible wheat letters known as “alphabet paste”. Omora Ethnobotanical Park, founded in 2000, is a 1,000-hectare private reserve Navarino Island. It is home to the southernmost sub-Antarctic temperate   forest in […]

Field Writing: ODISEA. Puerto Williams, Chile. 2021

Omora Park. Puerto Williams, Chile. Ephemeral writing of a paraphrase elaborated by the artist from several texts by Dr. Ricardo Rozzi (1960-): “We are fellow travelers of other creatures in the odyssey of existence”, using edible wheat letters known as alphabet paste Omora Ethnobotanical Park, founded in 2000, is a 1,000-hectare reserve on Navarino Island. […]

To Move. Tinquilco, Chile. 2020

The action was carried out in the context of the COVID 19 pandemic, during the first period of governmental authorization granted to people to travel between regions. The trip considered the journey from the central zone (Santiago) to the south of the country (Pucón), covering almost 800 kms. In the new place of settlement, the […]

Investigaciones en torno al viento: Tinquilco. Tinquilco, Chile. 2020

Intervention in the landscape and video. Measures, 100 square meters of taffeta fabric. Duration, variable. Lake Tinquilco. Video, 2´15´´ Intervención en el paisaje y video. Medidas, 100 metros cuadrados de tela tafetán. Duración, variable. Lago Tinquilco, Pucón. Video, 2´15´´