CIRCULATIONS

• Date:

  2026-02-20

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CIRCULATIONS is a project that arises from the urgency to translate everyday experiences and perceptions of identity, historical memory, and representation in the work of six Latin American artists with a common itinerancy. Under the question of how it is possible to approach this implicit conversation where visual exercises converge, in their materialities and imaginaries, without crystallizing their narratives? The works in question inhabit sensitive nodes of different moments and contexts in Latin America, as well as its diaspora, to investigate urban spaces, utopias, dystopias, and their relationship with "civilizing" paradigms that are still in force. About the works In On Boat (2023-2025) by Víctor Hugo Bravo, migration emerges as a universal theme, where the possible arrival of people in a precarious boat is confronted with the hostility radiated by the sculptures in his series Ciudad Negra (Black City) (2018-2026). Installed on the opposite wall, Error de cálculo (Miscalculation) (2025-2026) by Iván Zambrano Downing reflects on the erosion of modern utopias through partially dissolved sculptural forms that allude to everyday objects. In the adjoining room, Ricardo Fuentealba-Fabio documents and problematizes the presence of German design in Chile, based on the Núñez+Esperguel collection, with his drawings. He also addresses the tensions derived from the early link between the two countries, as an implicit commentary on a "civilizing" project and its persistence in certain social values. Danilo Espinoza Guerra in Archivo Ochagavía (2025-2026) uses smoke to make graphic pieces based on the activation of photographs of a hospital left half-built due to the 1973 military coup. In this vein of rethinking social and symbolic spaces, Angie Bonino, in "El retorno del inkarri" (The Return of Inkarri) (2022-2026), uses augmented reality tools displayed in a showcase to highlight the legacy of the Túpac Amaru Rebellion (1780-1783). This was the largest insurrection in colonial Spanish America, with a death toll of 100,000 and a very wide reach, including the territories of what we now know as Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina. Finally, in "Exhausted Encryptions" (2025-2026), Fernando Hierro offers a commentary on how the interaction of artificial intelligence shapes our subjectivity, in its binary and multimodal logic. Presented in paintings that seek to evoke these uncertainties and opacities, catalyzed by the encounter between geometry, color, and brief fragments of Henrik Ibsen's "An Enemy of the People" (1882) and Jorge Luis Borges "Tlön Uqbar Orbis Tertius" (1940).