Janet Toro | |
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 Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, 2017 | |
| Born | August 24, 1963 Osorno, Chile |
| Education | Studied fine art at the Universidad de Chile |
| Occupation | Performance artist |
| Years active | 1986–present |
| Known for | Addressing social injustices in Chile, anti-dictatorial work |
| Notable work | El cuerpo de la memoria (The body of memory), In Situ |
Janet Toro (born in Osorno, Chile, August 24, 1963) is a performance artist based in Chile and Germany whose work has centered around an anti-establishment message and the illumination of the social injustices that resulted from the Pinochet dictatorship.[1] She is most well known for her work, El cuerpo de la memoria (The body of memory), where she performed 90 actions over 44 days at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Santiago, Chile. Shortly after this, she moved to Germany in 1999, where she continued her career as a performance artist before moving back to Chile in 2014.[2]
- ^ "Janet Toro prueba los límites de su cuerpo y del dibujo en MAC « Diario y Radio U Chile". radio.uchile.cl (in European Spanish).
- ^ "Janet Toro". hemisphericinstitute.org. Archived from the original on 2019-04-14. Retrieved 2018-03-30.