Chile (1959- )

Participated CP 1996, 1997

Duclos studied Printmaking at the Catholic University and then at Eduardo Vilches’s Workshop, both in Santiago. His work has been the result of a constant quest to experiment with procedures and techniques in printmaking, painting, as well as in making objects. He has become a key figure in Chilean post-conceptual art since the early 1980s. He works with signs and codes related to communications, using recurrent images and symbols referring to universal ideologies that he reiterates and decontextualizes to such a point that one doubts their legitimacy. At the Experimental Workshop, Duclos worked with the theme of sickness and death, transforming the bodies of his models, which were originally mannequins made of resin, into cadavers devoured by pathologies of the skin. Duclos, however, was neither truculent nor morbid; the artist emulated the neutrality of a laboratory.