Fernanda Araya Mechsner

Fernanda Araya Mechsner (born on March 5, 2001) is a Chilean visual artist and makeup artist. She was born and raised in the city of Puerto Montt, in the south of the country. In 2019, she moved to Santiago, Chile, to study visual arts at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. For her, the body is a central element in her work, serving as a support, a creative tool, and an object of representation. Through traditional and body painting, she has explored the possibilities of working with and from the body. Her work ranges from common pictorial representations to forays into film, perform…