Jacqueline Schapiro

Jacqueline Schapiro is a Chilean artist born in 1969. A granddaughter of immigrants who was raised with a lot of discipline, her education instilled rigor and perseverance. At the age of three, severe hearing loss was detected, marking the beginning of her verbal learning and the use of hearing aids. Looking back now, her diminished sense of hearing sharpened her other senses, especially her visual acuity. She developed a keen sensitivity towards observing materiality, visual arts, nature, and the pre-Columbian background of the Chilean territory.

Between 1980 and 2008, she dedicated her practice to oil painting and began creating ceramic sculptures in 2011, developing her unique technique through personal research. Schapiro studied at the Architecture School of the Pontificia University Catolica of Chile, Santiago, and has been a member of the International Academy of Ceramics since 2021.

“Ceramics gives me freedom of expression, valuing and dignifying the sublimity of nature. Through the artwork, I seek to replicate it, dignify what I observe, and create beauty. I enhance it with the materials and elements I use to work, along with the random passage of fire that acts in the kiln. The flame passes unpredictably and casually over the pieces, leaving its mark and highlighting the scars the clay work undergoes from the beginning to its final form.”

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