I'm a chilean artist based in Toronto. In 2021 I finished my MA Fine Art at Central Saint Martins at UAL in London. Currently, I am looking for new opportunities in Toronto.
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About my practice
I'm interested in how the urban grid and constructions morphologies determine people’s lifestyle and behaviour, how the changes in the city’s morphologies are related to their inhabitants. Furthermore, the idea that spatial conditions of public and private spaces are the ones that shape society’s behaviour, which leads me to take particular attention to people’s perception of spaces. Therefore, I have worked under the premise that is people’s perception what makes cities exist. According to this idea, I started analysing different narratives of authors working on psychogeography and comparing their experiences with mine as an outsider living in London because I realised that one of the most important factors in perception is peoples background.
The process of my practice is deeply influenced by research about particular spaces that I identify in the city while I walk, perceiving people’s behaviour and looking at the spatial conditions of the place, to see the relation between these ones and the social environment.
Thus, the way people see the city will always be affected by the lenses through which each person sees, and those lenses have their story, experiences, knowledge, culture, language, etc; which will make an impact on how things are seeing.
Brief introduction to my life as an artist
I studied architecture in Santiago in Chile and worked for three years as an architect but always devoting my free time to produce art in different ways. This led me to realize that I wanted to change career paths to fully commit myself to become an artist. With this objective, I applied to Central Saint Martins and I started my Master in September 2019.
In 2021 after finishing my MA I moved to Toronto, Canada. I work as a part-time artist at the moment and I am looking for new opportunities to develop my career further.