Biography
Born: 1978, Santiago, Chile.
Studies: Bachelor of Visual Arts, Catholic University of Chile
Lives and works: in Santiago de Chile.
Represented by: Gallery Artespacio.
Presentation
My work is textile, protective, and reparative. I gather materials that have already lived a life, deconstructing and reconstructing them into bodies that shelter space. I work with remnants that can be mended, darned, transformed into symbolic skin. In my practice, textiles relate intimately to the body, as a sensitive and living extension of it. I manipulate fibers through dynamic techniques and an intuitive, perceptive process. The gesture leaves a trace: the act of creation becomes an intimate and transformative ritual. I explore relationships between structure, scale, and color, articulated through folds and textures that converse with space. Over time, my work has grown toward the collective—monumental installations, textile experiences, and collaborations that interweave the visual, the social, and the territorial. In these works, the process itself also becomes the artwork: an instance of listening, encounter, and shared transformation. Through video, I document that human fabric in which the community not only collaborates but also embodies the meaning and form of the work itself.
Trajectory
Maite Izquierdo Armendáriz (b.1978, Santiago, Chile). Visual artist. Bachelor of Visual Arts, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile (2001). For 25 years, she has continuously developed a body of work centered on textile art, exploring the connection between body, matter, and space through a practice that bridges the sensitive, the collaborative, and the territorial. She has held 14 solo exhibitions and over 30 group shows in Chile and abroad. Her work has been exhibited in spaces such as Galería Artespacio, Bodegón Cultural de Los Vilos, Molino Machmar in Puerto Varas, Pabellón de las Artes in Buenos Aires (Argentina), Galerie Mania Bretesche in Paris (France), Memorial América Latina in São Paulo (Brazil), and Gallery 159 in Brisbane (Australia). Her works are part of private and public collections, including the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Santiago, Hotel Enjoy in Castro (Chiloé), and Hotel Casa Puente in Valparaíso. Between 2006 and 2008, she lived in Brisbane, Australia, where she was part of Impress Printmakers Studio and ATASDA (Australian Textile Arts and Surface Design Association). In 2009 and 2012, she was selected for the annual exhibition of AICA (International Association of Art Critics).
Since 2014, she has been a member of the women’s artist collective ArsFactus, with whom she has developed collaborative projects in Chile and Brazil. In 2015, she participated in the “Placer” residency (Barrio Franklin, Santiago), presenting a work selected to represent Chile at the 15th International Triennial of Textile Art in Łódź, Poland. In 2019, her video artwork Herencia received second prize at the WTA International Biennial of Textile Art, Madrid. In 2022, she presented Adorado, a textile installation on the permanent collection of the Museum of Arts, Universidad de los Andes, and Corambre, at Sala de Arte CCU, an exhibition recognized by the Chilean Art Critics Circle as the best textile show of the year. In 2025, she presented Manto de Reparación, a major collective, social, and textile exhibition at Sala Gasco, which gathered more than 170 people in collaborative workshops held over two years, receiving significant critical and public acclaim. In addition to her artistic work, she accompanies other artists in their creative processes, helping them connect their artistic practice with meaningful, personal, and spiritually integrated creation.
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