Tragedies Interrupted: An Interview with Voluspa Jarpa

Alkisti Efthymiou, Voluspa Jarpa

Alkisti Efthymiou is a PhD candidate at the Department of Social Anthropology at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (Athens, Greece). Closely engaging with works of queer feminist film from Chile, Argentina, and Brazil, her thesis focuses on the cultural politics of love and intimacy under conditions of neoliberal governmentality. Her most recent publications include papers in journals such as the Journal of Greek Media and Culture, The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, and Fabrik Zeitung.

Voluspa Jarpa is a painter and visual artist based in Santiago, Chile. Since 1994 she has maintained an extensive artistic production, participating in group and individual exhibitions both in Chile and abroad. She has exhibited in museums and art centres of Latin America and Europe as well as in international biennials such as the Havana Biennale (1996), Shanghai Biennale (2003 and 2018), Istanbul Biennale (2011), Mercosur Biennale (2011), Sao Paulo Biennale (2014) and the Venice Biennale (2019), where she represented Chile.