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Known worldwide for her musical facet and with four Latin Grammys and two MTV Europe Music Awards, Mon Laferte (Viña del Mar, 1983) makes us discover her pictorial work in Paris at the 13th District International Street Art Festival with the help of the Utopic Bay Gallery.
She is the Chilean singer with the most international projection, but parallel to music and from a very young age, Laferte draws and paints. “All my life, in the same way that I was in contact with music, I have also been painting, only I had not shared it with the world”, she comments to Escala en Paris.
Laferte began to share his canvases in Mexico, a country that inspires him on a daily basis and whose culture is reflected in his works because of the color and also because of the symbols, such as the Virgin of Guadalupe, the patron saint of the country who also has a tattoo on her face. hand.
“There came a time, six years ago, when my room was full of works and I told myself I had to do something,” says the artist and singer who a few months ago also obtained Mexican nationality.
Laferte’s work arrives at the urban art fair in Paris District 13, which is held at the Hotel Drouot in the capital between September 15 and 18, by the Bahía Utópica gallery in Valparaíso, Chilean cradle par excellence of graffiti and street art.
On the walls of the city, Mon Laferte has signed murals together with the Un Kolor Distinto duo, also present at the Paris fair. It was precisely with this collaboration that gallery owners Bertrand Coustou and Nancy Arancibia decided to start exhibiting Laferte’s work.
“It has signatures like the way of painting the eyes and a modern side that goes with its theme, the colors it uses and the freedom. I have discussed it with many more classical artists and they, almost envious, say: ‘Hey, Mon paints with a freedom that we don’t have, how does she do it?’ explains Bertrand Coustou who also highlights that the paintings by Laferte have a committed speech.
“Painting gives me a few moments of ecstasy and glory alone, in silence, which is something I don’t find so easily in music,” the author of ‘Your lack of wanting’ explains in the program. An intimacy, a “slow” and “contemplative” process, she tells us.
Together with Mon Laferte, the Bahía Utópica gallery at the Drouot hotel is represented by Chilean artists JP Neira, Lobsang Durney, Cristian Castillo, the duo Un Kolor Distinto and the muralist Etienne Cristoffanini.
“Fear is always an enemy and paralyzes us”
The singer, who has just arrived from a tour of Spain, was very committed to the demonstrations of the social outbreak in Chile that began in October 2019 and led to the process of a new Constitution, rejected by a referendum on September 4.
“I am very sad with the result. I think that it is very difficult for humans to get out of the comfort zone and fear is always an enemy and paralyzes us. I understand why people were afraid. Still, I think it’s progress. The important thing is that in the first vote the people said they did not want the Pinochet Constitution. There was also a lot of fake news. This was not, but it will be another, I have faith that it will be another”, analyzes Mon Laferte.
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