SELECTED WORKS

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1 MARÍA MELÉNDEZ

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3 María Constanza Meléndez *1983 in Santiago de Chile Lives and works in Munich, Germany. Education 2018 Diplom in Fine Arts from the Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, Germany Studies at Sculpture Department with Professor Hermann Pitz at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich, Germany 2010 Master Degree in Fine Arts with major in Photography at Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile 2007 Student exchange and documentary photography project realized at the Hochschule für bildende Künste (HFBK), Hamburg, Germany 2006 Studies in documentary photography at Instutut of Image and Communication, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile. Selected exhibitions, publications and grants Upcoming 2018 Group exhibition Nacional, National Stadium, Santiago, Chile Past 2018 Diplom exhibition at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, Germany 2017 Keep Control. Group exhibition. Galerie KnustxKunz, Munich, Germany 2016 FILE, Electronic Language International Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil Electronic Catalog 2015 Galaxias Masculatus. Group exhibition. Museum of Contemporary Art, Valdivia, Chile 2015 Curved yellow Fruit. Curatorial work. Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich, Germany 2014 Milbertshofen, contribution for GUERRILLA Contemporary Photography Zine Viento sur. Group exhibition. Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich, Germany 2012 Breves ejercicios simbólicos. El don de la palabra. N 8. INDICE. Las cosas por su nombre. Contribution for Rufian Revista, Chile In collaboration with Paula Arrieta. breves-ejercicios-simbolcos-el-don-de-la-palabra/ 2012 Milbertshofen. Group exhibition. Adbk München, Germany Milbertshofen. Public intervention, Munich, Germany Santiago. Public intervention, Santiago, Chile Dictadura. Public intervention, Santiago, Chile Dictudacra. Public intervention, Santiago, Chile Selected for the International Portfolio Review organized by the National Council of the Arts, Chile. Rewiewed by photographer and Brazilian curator Iata Cannabrava 2011 Lente Latino. Group exhibition. National Museum of Fine Arts. Santiago, Chile Rango familiar, N 4 Un nuevo manual para la moral y la buenas costumbres. Contribution for Rufián Revista (magazine), Chile Por la boca muere el pez. Master degree, Universidad de Chile. Santiago, Chile 2009 Miradas Cruzadas. Group exhibition. Sala Juan Egenau. Universidad de Chile. Santiago, Chile 2008 Carahue. Group exhibition. Universidad de Chile. Santiago Chile Funded by Blue Fund for Student Creativity of Universidad de Chile 2005 Prize for the student initiatives of the Solidarity University fund of Chile Fundación Chile builds country 2004 Blue Fund for Student Creativity. Universidad de Chile BIO / CV

4 PAISAJES 1, 2 & 3 / 2012 SANTIAGO / 2012 MILBERTSHOFEN / 2012 UNTITLED (2010) / 2013 ADLERS NEST / 2014 UNTITLED (1990) / 2015 RECETARIO / 2016 RECETARIO B / 2016 INDEX

5 Gelatin silver print / 2012 In 1975 the operation Retreat of televisions was carried out by the order of the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. Around 170 corpses of political prisoners killed during the dictatorship were exhumed from mass graves and thrown into the sea without leaving a trace. The bodies were never found.the work Paisajes I - III exerts its role of witness and proof of evidence through photographing the specific area where it is believed those mass graves once existed. PAISAJES I - III

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7 Public Intervention / Poster on wall / 2012 On January 4, 2012, the printed and virtual newspapers of Chile informed the Chilean people that the National Council of Education had taken the following determination: The word DICTADURA (dictatorship), refering to the period between 1973 and 1989 in Chile, would be removed from all school books and replaced by the words Military Regime. In reaction to this euphemism an impression on paper of the word DITADUCRA was installed in the center of the Chilean capital. The simple change of the order of letters within this specific word (DICTADURA=DICTA- TORSHIP) stresses its own importance and historic relevance in the context of following generations. SANTIAGO, 2012

8 Public Intervention / Poster on wall / 2012 In Milbertshofen, a district of Munich, Germany, the Nazi dictatorship organized temporary camps for Jews that then were transferred to the concentration camps in Poland and Lithuania. Today the majority of the population with migratory origin lives in that same area. In this historically diverse setting a print on paper of the word VAETRALND was installed. Using the same technique of changing letters within the word (see description on previous page) it refers to VATERLAND - a term that has changed its meaning over and over throughout the course of German history and context. This intevention questions the true meaning of the word and its effective use in the contemporary world. MILBERTSHOFEN, 2012

9 SDV / ca. 17 min / color / 2013 Untitled (2010) tracks the route between Dichato and Penco. Both towns being located in the coastal area of the eighth region of Chile were hit by a devastating tsunami after an 8.9 (Richter) earthquake in February Within 17 minutes the viewer is witness to an uncut footage of the typical architecture of the area being reconstructed. Four family stories form the narrative providing a glimpse to the identity of a country. UNTITLED (2010)

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11 C-type prints / 2014 The photographic work Adlers Nest approaches inherent phenomena of migration such as homeland, bloodlines respectively personal origin, national and subjective identity. The portraits of adolescent peer groups with migratory origin in the district of Milbertshofen, Munich, Germany represent a generation of a growing part of society that lives as foreigners in the country they were born in. ADLERS NEST

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16 HDV / 8:14 min / Color & sound / 2015 The starting point of the plot is set in the year That is when the storytelling main character returns to Chile after the end of the military dictatorship and after living four years in the United States of America as an young immigrant girl from Chile. The off voice tells personal anecdotes about her childhood and everyday experience from that period of her life. A second story given by the image is juxtaposed recounting a trip by boat offered by the local fishermen starting from the public beach of the Chilean town Dichato that was massively affected by the tsunami of 2010 to Pingueral, a private beach resort for the wealthy part of society located nearby. These two stories that at first seem to have no relationship between each other, confront the idea of freedom after the dictatorship with the return to democracy in Chile. UNTITLED (1990)

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18 Book/ DIN A5 / 28 pages / Color / 2016 On December 10, 2006, the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet passed away in the Military Hospital of Santiago de Chile. Outside the building his followers wept his departure while his political opponents celebrated in the center of the capital. His death brought up many issues: the end of a period, the failure of the judicial system in Chile and the phenomenally massive turnout of followers of the dictator. Recetario (cookbook) is a book that merges the images taken on that same day outside of the Military Hospital with typical Chilean recipes. Recetario is a book about the history of Chile and its traditions. It is dedicated to my Chilean-German daughters and will be send by mail to 100 other Chileans chosen at random. RECETARIO

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20 Silkscreen print on paper / four color process / DIN A1 / Edition of 12 / 2016 Recetario B is an excerpt from the book Recetario for upcoming public intervention. RECETARIO B

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