Magdalena Correa holds a degree in Fine Arts from the Catholic University of Chile (1994) and a PhD in Photography from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (2003). She has been developing her photography and video work since the 1990s. Her projects focus on exploring territories that are isolated, precarious and forgotten, in which the extreme conditions imposed by the surrounding nature also have to be supported. When working in the field, the artist stays in these territories, living in the same conditions as the local inhabitants, in order to capture her experience in an image and then reinterpret it, inviting the viewer to reflect on life in such places. Correa has also worked on projects such as South (2004-2006), dedicated to Patagonia in Chile; The Disappearance (2006-2008) featuring the Gobi desert, straddling China and Mongolia, and the Atacama desert in Chile; and La Rinconada (2012-2014), a series focusing on the mining town of the same name in Peru.
Correa has had solo shows at institutions of the ilk of the Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art (Santiago de Chile, 2000, 2001, 2012 and 2013); the Ibero-American Museum of Contemporary Art (Badajoz, 2002); the Cervantes Institutes of Paris (2003), Chicago (2004), São Paulo (2005) and Beijing (2009); the Caja de Burgos Art Centre (2006); Fundación Telefónica de Santiago de Chile and the Huesca Art and Nature Centre (2008); the Telefónica Foundation of Buenos Aires (2009); Alcobendas Art Centre (Madrid, 2015); Casa de América (Madrid, 2016); and the Huelva International Photography Festival (2017).
Magdalena Correa holds a degree in Fine Arts from the Catholic University of Chile (1994) and a PhD in Photography from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (2003). She has been developing her photography and video work since the 1990s. Her projects focus on exploring territories that are isolated, precarious and forgotten, in which the extreme conditions imposed by the surrounding nature also have to be supported. When working in the field, the artist stays in these territories, living in the same conditions as the local inhabitants, in order to capture her experience in an image and then reinterpret it, inviting the viewer to reflect on life in such places. Correa has also worked on projects such as South (2004-2006), dedicated to Patagonia in Chile; The Disappearance (2006-2008) featuring the Gobi desert, straddling China and Mongolia, and the Atacama desert in Chile; and La Rinconada (2012-2014), a series focusing on the mining town of the same name in Peru.
Correa has had solo shows at institutions of the ilk of the Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art (Santiago de Chile, 2000, 2001, 2012 and 2013); the Ibero-American Museum of Contemporary Art (Badajoz, 2002); the Cervantes Institutes of Paris (2003), Chicago (2004), São Paulo (2005) and Beijing (2009); the Caja de Burgos Art Centre (2006); Fundación Telefónica de Santiago de Chile and the Huesca Art and Nature Centre (2008); the Telefónica Foundation of Buenos Aires (2009); Alcobendas Art Centre (Madrid, 2015); Casa de América (Madrid, 2016); and the Huelva International Photography Festival (2017).