An ode to the body, nudity also expresses, in Paz Corona’s work, the glory of painting as an ode to the body, nudity also expresses, in Paz Corona’s work, the glory of painting as the power to lay bare. In this sense, all painting for her is an art of the face, an art that scrutinizes. The paradox of painting is applying color to a canvas as an art of exposure. This art asserts itself by sometimes leaving certain parts of the paintings bare, revealing the canvas, the body of the canvas, and the paint directly on its “skin,” a veil without a veil.
— Gérard Wajcman
Born in Chile in 1968, Paz Corona is an artist and psychoanalyst. Although primarily a painter, she extends her artistic practice to photography, video and sculpture.
Paz Corona’s painting is deeply rooted in her personal history. In the act of painting, two elements are constantly intertwined: a story of which she herself is unaware, and a technique that gradually takes shape as the work unfolds.
The portraits of her subjects are built around the eyes. The eyes reveal what remains unseen; they convey astonishment, the unexpected and the contingent.
She paints swiftly, in a loose, spontaneous manner. Her painting is fragile and imprecise, and it is precisely this quality that makes it so immediate, present and embodied.
She transforms everything that nourishes her artistic practice: the painters who have shaped the history of representation, from its very beginnings, and the literature she has immersed herself in since adolescence.