La Chola Poblete asserts the importance of ancestral knowledge in the South American territory, and the need to reverse colonial practices of gender and racial discrimination in Argentina. Her work denounces the mistreatment of brown populations and of sexual dissidents, the stereotyping and exoticization of indigenous peoples, and advocates for the presentation of beauties and bodies that oppose culturally-constructed standards.
La Chola Poblete studied for the BA degree and teacher training degree in Visual Arts at the Universidad de Cuyo. She participated in the Artists’ Programme of the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (2018) and in the Artists’ Programme of MARCO Arte Foco, artist-in-residence workshops.
In 2014, she was awarded in the 11th edition of the Escenarios Award for the “Best Young Art Proposal”. She participated in the First Performance Biennial at the Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes “Franklin Rawson”, de San Juan. Among her solo exhibitions, the following can be mentioned: El órgano masculino de la Chola [The Chola’s Male Organ], at the Mercado de Arte, in Córdoba, SLAVE, at the Museo Carlos Alonso, in Mendoza (2019) and Tenedor de hereje [Heretic’s Fork], at Pasto Galería, Buenos Aires (2021). She recently had a solo show at Kunsthalle Lissabon in Lisbon, Portugal.