ABOUT ME
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| At Petershof, Basel, Switzerland, 2016. Shot by Reto. |
Welcome to my story!
Verónica Arís was born in Santiago, Chile. She studied two Bachelors at Pontificia Universidad
Católica de Chile: one of Fine Arts, with the dissertation: 'Return to
painting as an exercise over time' in 2003, and the other of Philosophy
with the dissertation: 'The Question of the phenomenological genesis of the
concepts of consciousness in the Fifth Logical Investigation of Edmund Husserl'
(2011). Settled in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 2004 until 2008, she
studied with the Professor Roberto Walton at the University of Buenos Aires.
Back to Chile in 2009, Arís lead two reading groups concerning the Cartesian
Meditations by Edmund Husserl for physicians at Clínica Las Condes
(2009-2013), and from 2012 to the present day, one on 'The Phenomenological
practice for Clinical Diagnosis: Studies for a Phenomenological Psychology',
mainly for psychoanalysts and psychiatrists. She also studied a Master in Philosophy at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven with the
dissertation: Towards a Phenomenology of Height Vertigo in
2016.
Since 2007, Arís regularly presents her personal studies
in Congresses of Philosophy in Chile and Argentina. Her interests are mainly
focused on Phenomenological Research concerning disturbed consciousness within
the Psychological field and different systems of attention displayed in Arts
production and performing. As a result of these investigations, she has
presented a Seminar on Applied Phenomenology, focused on the
experience of perception in Drawing in general, Height Vertigo and Drawing
Portraits, in Santiago de Chile (January 2018).
After years of studying Phenomenology, Arís decided to
turn to the visual arts with a series of charcoal portraits in 2013, as a way
to broaden philosophical discussions outside of the scholarly field. This translation of philosophical discussions into visual
art has two main implications: on the one hand, it turns Philosophy back to
everyday life, and on the other hand, turns the aesthetic experience of
Art into a meaningful scenario for discussion, reflection and knowing thyself.
This initiative has led her to participate in both Collective and Solo
exhibitions in Brussels, Basel, Zagreb, and London.
Currently, she gives drawing courses in Brussels. It
is common to hear her students saying: "It is not just a class of
drawing in order to make something nice. She teaches us how to see, she pushes
us to be aware of all that is going on while we perceive the composition, how
much to believe in our perception, how much to deconstruct of it. It is as if
she knows what is going on inside us, what is happening to us". In
fact, for her, a real workshop on Phenomenology, far from a traditional class
of Philosophy at the University, is a drawing course. It is in the
drawing courses where we really deal with our perception in a phenomenological
way.
VAZ
vero.aris@gmail.com
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