NATALIA AROS

Graduate in Art from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC), Bachelor of Arts (PUC), with studies in Developmental Psychology (PUC), Psychoplastics (PUC) and Art Therapy. 

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Natalia has dedicated herself to work in the academy, being a teaching assistant in undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the schools of Art and Psychology (PUC). These experiences have been closely linked to the research and creation of work, producing images from the relationship between art and psychology.

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Using painting as a medium, I rescue and conceptualise: materiality, gestural expression and the use of layers of paint, the visual language and aesthetics of scratching and street art, to deal, through these, with the idea of the conscious and the unconscious, what is hidden and what is revealed, as well as what is marginalised. Concepts of the human psyche, which through plastic art are transformed into integrating elements, both psychically and visually.

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In this way, a crossover is generated on a technical and conceptual level, with the aim of contributing to the production of images of symbolic representation of life in the city, the human being and contemporary society.   

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She has participated in national and international exhibitions, cultural projects of the Chilean Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage, such as Residencia Artística Arte Colaborativo, and in publications in books and international magazines.

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Among the most outstanding diffusions: Biennale di Firenze (Italy), Casa de la Cultura Diego Rivera (Chile), Parallax Art Fair Europe (London, U.K.) and the book Make The Cut Vol I: The World's Best Collage Artists.

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Influenced by psychology, especially Jungian psychology, and by various international and local visual artists such as Jean Basquiat, Mark Rothko, Roberto Matta, José Balmes, Willem de Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg, Banksy, among others, his works refer to the urban-psychological landscape.