Matilde Pérez

[1][2] Her best known public pieces include Túnel Cinético (Kinetic Tunnel) in 1970, and el Friso, which was originally constructed at the Centro Comercial Apumanque in 1982, but is now located at the University of Talca.

Studied Art in the University of Chile, where was student of Pablo Burchard and Jorge Caballero, also receiving lectures by Pedro Reszka and Laureano Guevara.

She moved to Paris, France, during the early 1960s, where she became interested in kinetic art, which focuses on movement, including the work of Victor Vasarely.

[3] Her work shows the "experimentation with the possibilities of creation of virtual movement through the optical illusion",[4] and "is based in the investigation of the visual effects of the abstract forms and the use of colour.

In 2012, her retrospective exhibition opened at Pinta, the largest annual Latin American art show in London, when she was 95 years old.