Cielo rojo y verde y azul

The light structure conforms to a system that replicates, through an algorithm, the code from the «BITMAP POEMARIUM» series of works. In each composition, every sequence of colours represents a number from 0 to 255, simultaneously representing a character from a poem. The composition of three colours turns every 17 seconds.

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BITMAP POEMARIUM

“the wheel extends our feet, the phone extends our voice, television extends our eyes and ears, the computer extends our brain, and electronic media, in general, extend our central nervous system.”
Marshall McLuhan

Bitmap Poemarium an artist book that brings together a collection of 33 conceptual poems.

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Río del Cielo

Hatun Mayu (Río del Cielo) 2022 ASCII image, sublimation print on Deko Texx. 240 x 320 cm. (detail)

Rio del Cielo (River of the Sky) is the name given to the Milky Way in the Atacama culture, according to the belief that this is a “river” bringing the dead souls to the other world.
Characters used to form this image are determined by the code of the colour profilings of the digital image itself. The colour profile of a digital image determines the colours to use to make “visible” a picture on the surface of a screen. This work inverses this logic, bringing the colour profile code to the surface of the textile on which the image is printed.

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RGB Paintings

Presence (#aca8ab)
2019
oil on paper, mounted on aluminium composite sheet
140 x 100 cm.

RGB Paintings is a series of works on paper inspired by daily life means of communication systems, screens, and the Internet.

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Dark Constellations

Dark Constellation CGA 03
2023
Acrylic on paper mounted on board
27 x 37,5 cm.

The Atacameño culture views the night sky as a vital light source in the desert, with constellations seen as shapes in the dark areas of the sky, unlike Western culture that perceives them as groups of stars.

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Ay la hoyri peni cahii li cielo

Ay la hoyri peni cahii li cielo
2022
ASCII image, sublimation print on Deko Texx
475 x 320 cm.
detail

Ay la hoyri peni cahii li cielo is the Paniri volcano (Atacama Desert) representation printed in Ascii mode. This work honours the Atacama culture’s belief that volcanoes or TataMallkus are a linking bridge between heaven and earth.

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Wormhole

Wormhole
2017
digital photograph.

WORMHOLE is an action performed in June 2017 in the desert of Atacama in Chie. A laptop was placed in the middle of the desert, connected to the Internet displaying a real time webcam placed in Hong Kong, the diametral opposite part of the world.

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DAWN EYE – ZOOM

Dawn Eye - Zoom
2017
live stream webcam video projection, wood structure, laptop
(View of the exhibition "Foreign Sky", at NON BERLIN, Berlin, Germany)

DAWN EYE – ZOOM is an video installation displaying the sky of sunrises of different points of the world happening in real time. Those images are broadcasted by live-stream webcams located in several countries of the world.

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Looking to the South (crux)

Looking to the South 2018
Perforated inox steel plate, industrial glue, acrylic lacquer.
14,9 x 7,4 x 0,4 cm.

LOOKING TO THE SOUTH is a handmade device of the same size and shape of my cellphone. Pointing this piece against the light, it reveals some open holes shaping the exact proportions of the constellation “Cruz del Sur” (Crux) and its adjacent part of the sky.

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Pixel

Pixel
2017
Filters foils on roof window, site-specific intervention
View of the exhibition Thresholds, at Meinblau Projektraum, Berlin (view of the exhibition with the artwork of Juan Varela).

The main room of the exhibition space of Meinblau Projektraum has been immersed in a red, blue and green colored environment falling from the ceiling.

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RGBA-ABGR (0.8)

RGBA-ABGR (0.8)
2017
Filters foils on window, site-specific intervention
View of the exhibition Different Similarities, duo show with Carla Bertone, at Pavillon am Milchhof, Berlin

This site-specific intervention turned the window of the exhibition space of Pavillon am Milchhof into two augmented “pixels” by filtering the light of the ambiance through RGB colors. The observer is, therefore, able to look at the inside and the outside space filtered by these colors.

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Mother PNG

Mamá

This book contains the whole png code that a computer reads in order to display the image on its cover. This image is a screenshot taken during a conversation between the artist and his mother who lives in Chile.

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Nunc

A blank page wait for being written by the date and place of the moment when you see it.

A blank page wait for being written by the date and place of the moment when you see it.

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Calama’s dawn

Calama's dawn displays a dawn in the Atacama's desert, where my mom's living. I displayed this image in realtime while I was in Seoul, South Korea, the oposite side of the world

A live video installation displaying a sunrise in Calama, Chile, where my mother lives. It was screened for 2 hours every day during the exhibition period at Geumcheon Art Space ( Seoul, South Korea ), showing the exact moment when the sun rises for Chile, which is the exact moment when the sun sets in Korea… Continue reading Calama’s dawn

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Facing the sun

Facing the Sun
2015
livestream webcams
Geumcheon Art Space, Seoul, South Korea
In collaboration with Lucia Jeesun Lee

This project is a 24-hour scanning of the Sunlight in several places around the world, displaying a selection of open-source stream webcams broadcasted through the Internet.

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Twin realities

Twin realities
2012
Fine art inkjet printing photograph.

Two photographs of the same object are turned into two different realities: RGB and CMYK. These two colour spaces symbolise two parallel “realities” in my work: light and a material conception of the universe. 

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