My Shadow To Your Feet

Nicolás Astorga & Miguel Soto
My Shadow To Your Feet

a dialogue exhibition on
brotherhood, blood, violence, competition, love and unloading

Nicolás Astorga (Santiago de Chile, 1990) lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He finished his Meisterschule studies at the Expanded Cinema class at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst HGB Leipzig. He received the DAAD Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Scholarship for Postgraduate Studies in the Fields of Fine Art, Design, Visual Communication and Film. He completed his undergraduate studies at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and then completed the SOMA study program in Mexico City for two years. He has exhibited in museums and galleries in Chile, as well as individual and group exhibitions in Mexico, Colombia, Peru, and Germany.
Last solo exhibitions include EVERYTHING HURTS (Bistro 21, Leipzig) YOU CAN STAY HERE AND BE PRETTY (Kunstraum Ortloff, Lepizig), Mantente Fuerte / Stay Strong (LOCAL Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Chile), Lista Negra (Tokyo Gallery, Lima, Peru) and CABRÓN (Sagrada Mercancía, Santiago de Chile).

Miguel Soto (Santiago de Chile, 1990) lives and works in Chile. He works in sculpture, installation and public projects. Soto holds an MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art and a BA in Fine Art at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He has shown his work individually and collectively in different exhibitions in Chile, Argentina, Perú, the US, the UK, Serbia, Croatia and Italy.
He teaches at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Universidad Andrés Bello. He won the first award in the Cowley Manor Arts Award and the Kenneth Hermitage Young sculptor prize of the Hiscox Collection, also the second award, and a special prize, young art prize of the Museum of Visual Arts in Chile. His work is in the collection of The Museum of Visual Arts in Santiago (MAVI) and private collections in Chile and the UK.