Cristina Palacios explores immateriality, temporality and impermanence in a new large-scale installation.

Utilising the myth of Pachamama as her point of departure, Cristina Palacios explores immateriality, temporality and impermanence in a new large-scale installation.

Pachamama is a mythological figure in South American culture; a sacred being and a feminine, nurturing god. Adopting a pseudo-magic realist position, Palacios creates her own version of the Pachamama myth, weaving accepted versions of the story into her own constructed narrative.

Pachamama's Poncho was made with acetate ribbon, using the form of the poncho widely worn in South America as a visual referent.

Cristina Palacios was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and migrated to Australia in 1987. Palacios has also travelled extensively throughout Europe, Latin America and Asia and lived in New York for six years. Cristina completed a Diploma of Visual Arts at CAE in 2005 and then attained a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Distinction and a Master of Fine Arts from RMIT University in 2010. Cristina held her first solo exhibition at the Palace of the Legislature in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and since then has participated in over 50 group exhibitions at venues such as the Immigration Museum, Parliament House, Linden Gallery, Fortyfivedownstairs, McClelland Gallery, Guildford Lane Gallery, James Makin Gallery and RMIT Project Space.

Sound by Dallas Clarke, with flute improvisation by Linda Pearson.