SHARED SPACES captures images born out of exile, extermination, and genocide. These consist of invisible and emotional memories carried in the luggage—where the container transports sensations, feelings, scents, and tastes that share space with personal belongings.
SHARED SPACES are fragmented landscapes, ethnic scenes from diverse cultures that take us on a journey to a distant place imprinted in memories. A place where nostalgia reveals itself through a scent, a taste, or a feeling.
“Like the scent of the sea…”
“The taste of a spice…”
“The feeling of being high in the mountains or immersed in the vastness of La Pampa…”
SHARED SPACES transports you through time and space via different paths, trails, and tracks. Surreal landscapes made up of symbolic places, experienced emotions, uncomfortable and pleasant memories, all arising from a persistent sense of nostalgia.
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My name is Salazar Luna. I was born in 1956 in Maitencillo, Chile.
In 1980, I left Chile and settled in La Pampa, Argentina. After seven years in Argentina, I moved to Sweden and lived in Stockholm for 13 years. In 2001, I relocated to Gran Canaria, Spain, where I stayed until 2012. I am now back in Sweden and living in Åkersberga.
I have been working with art since the 1980s, and my first exhibition was in 1985.
When it comes to my art, I consider myself self-taught. Early in my artistic career, I focused on installations and performances that depicted the abuses committed in my home country. Over time, I painted more and more, with my art often addressing social and political themes.
From the 1990s onward, I have sought to engage in a more universal and intellectual approach to my work. Although I have explored different artistic directions, such as sculpture and printmaking, I continue to investigate, clarify, explore, and search within painting, as well as through performance and installations.
During this period, I have exhibited in various museums, galleries, and art halls in countries such as Argentina, Mexico, France, Poland, Finland, Spain, China, and Sweden.
My art is represented in museums, embassies, municipal buildings, and private collections.
