12 of 12   Eugenia Vargas Eugenia Vargas combines her interests in both photography and performance art in this series of works. The photographs are staged, as the artist often photographs and re-photographs images to create elaborate tableaux. Poder de actos de domino irrevocable (Power of Irrevocable Acts of Dominion), as with most of Vargas’ productions, takes the body as its subject, particularly her own body, to convey notions of gender, identity, and memory. Poder de actos de domino irrevocable, 1995. Eugenia Vargas (Chilean, born 1949). Photographs: each at 41" x 39". Gift of ArtPace, A Foundation for Contemporary Art, San Antonio.
	EUGENIA VARGAS, B. 1949 ugenia Vargas was born in Chillán, Chile and currently resides in Miami, Florida. Her works include photography, installations, and performances. She has exhibited throughout the Americas and Europe since the early 1980s. Her works can be found in a number of permanent collections in the United States, Germany, and Mexico. As a photographer, Vargas is especially interested in portraying the human body as a medium to explore issues of life and death, birth and rebirth, and the ephemeral nature of existence. She considers the human body a perfect instrument to express these themes, seeing it as a reservoir of memories and a symbol of identity. A recurring theme in her work is the personal and environmental destruction caused by rampant consumerism and “progress.” Her photographs of the human form fuse logic and imagination, juxtapose images of the past and present, and experiment with space and perspective to create enigmatic images.