Pedro Jiménez Morrás (Santiago, Chile, 1965) lives in Bordeaux and works across translation, writing and cultural projects. Drawing on a practice rooted in literature, the visual arts and cultural studies, he develops work situated between the essay and autofiction, exploring questions of language, displacement and identity.
","externallinks":[]},{"uri":"artists/marisa-cornejo","title":"Marisa Cornejo","firstname":"Marisa","surname":"Cornejo","biography":"Marisa Cornejo (born in 1971 in Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean artist who lives and works in Switzerland. The daughter of Communist activists, she fled Chile with her family in 1973 following Pinochet's military coup. Her family's exile took them successively to Argentina, Bulgaria, Belgium and Mexico, where, from the early 1980s, she trained in contemporary dance and visual arts at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM).
In Mexico City, Cornejo collaborated with the artist-run space La Panadería, a pioneering venue on the Mexican contemporary art scene dedicated to emerging artists. Over the years, it also presented the work of international figures including Richard Kern, Sharon Hayes, Kurt Hollander, Gelitin and Francis Alÿs. It was during this period that she discovered the narrative potential of dreams, which have since become a central source of her artistic practice. After a period in England, she settled near Geneva in 2005.
While completing a Master's degree in Visual Arts at HEAD–Genève, awarded in 2014, Cornejo developed a long-term research practice centred on memory, exile and forced migration, drawing directly on her own personal history. Her work has since taken the form of performances, installations, drawings, publications and sculptures in which archives, narratives and lived experiences are reactivated.
In 2013, she published I am (art&fiction), her first book bringing together a selection of drawings based on her dreams. Through this exploration of the unconscious, she examines the effects of displacement on the construction of identity while shedding light on questions that are at once intimate and collective. This line of enquiry continued in L'empreinte. Une archive d'artiste soustraite au terrorisme d'État (The Trace: An Artist's Archive Rescued from State Terrorism) (art&fiction, 2023), which explores the reappropriation of family archives shaped by Chile's political history.
Her work was recognised with the Fondation Francine Delacrétaz Prize in 2023, followed by a Swiss Art Award in 2024.
Marisa Cornejo's work has been exhibited in Switzerland and internationally in both solo and group exhibitions, including at Helmhaus Zürich (2025); Maison Tavel / MAH Geneva (2025); Lovay Fine Arts, Geneva (2024); the Centro Nacional de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile (2023); and the Gallatin Galleries, New York (2023).
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(Spanish translation of L'empreinte. Une archive d'artiste soustraite au terrorisme d'État)
About the book:
Chile, 1973 — Geneva, 2023. Rediscovered photographs recount the aftermath of Pinochet's military coup on a family of artists and teachers forced onto the roads of exile. An intimate narrative by a daughter, dedicated to the memory of her father.
In 2006, a three-cubic-metre crate was delivered to a modest suburban house in a residential development built two decades earlier on the outskirts of Geneva for international civil servants. Shipped from Mexico, it contained a small collection of furniture, artworks, paintings, drawings, prints and thousands of photographs. Together, these objects formed the core of the archive of Eugenio Cornejo, born in Santiago, Chile, in 1940 and deceased in Puebla, Mexico, in 2002. A committed artist and teacher, he was imprisoned and tortured under Pinochet's dictatorship, lived in exile without ever being officially recognised as a refugee, and died of alcoholism without receiving any form of reparation or compensation from the Chilean state.
His daughter, the artist Marisa Cornejo, organised the archive's rescue and has since undertaken the painstaking work of examining and sorting through her father's collection. Several years into this process, she decided to digitise the contents of fifteen boxes containing 1,500 colour slides. These images revealed the brighter side of an exile that took the family from Chile to Mexico via Argentina, Bulgaria and Belgium against the backdrop of the Cold War. Archaeological sites, breathtaking landscapes, family scenes, gatherings with friends and excursions: these newly uncovered photographs fill the gaps in the memory of the little girl who lived through this journey between the ages of two and nine, enabling her to construct a narrative from what had until then remained an unspeakable, traumatic blur.
2023, art&fiction Editions, Lausanne and Geneva; 2026, LOM Ediciones, Santiago, Chile (Spanish translation by Pedro Jiménez Morrás).
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