Over the past ten years, I have developed a body of work titled If I Could, I Would Do It Worse, in which I have researched and recreated various forms of institutional emblems and period utensils from the recent history of Spanish America. My visual language has been constructed from objects that are no longer in circulation and that form part of historiographical records. Through exhaustive documentary and oral research, I have rematerialized these objects, bringing into question the geopolitical and visual history of Spanish America within the context of Western modernity.

Through this effort, I reveal the power structures that dominate Latin American history across its various phases of Westernization. The results of my findings have taken the form of installations, sculptures, collages, and videos that appropriate elements of “monumentalist sculpture,” characteristic of the “modern project,” in order to disrupt this imaginary. My formal strategies subvert this iconography—defined by symmetry, permanence, and stability—by creating sculptural replicas and imbuing them with mobility.

My work has been exhibited in major museums and galleries, mainly in Latin America, Europe, and the United States, including: the 8th Havana Biennial, Cuba (2003); Back Yard, Americas Society, NY (2003); Shanghai Biennale, Project N11, China (2004); Resistance, Fall and Madness, ACC Galerie, Weimar, Germany (2006); Era07 REGIÓN: Fricciones y Fricciones, Museo Blanes, Montevideo, Uruguay, curated by Gerardo Mosquera (2007); Ni pena ni miedo, MEIAC Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz, Spain (2011); De naturaleza violenta, FLORA ars+natura, Bogotá, Colombia, curated by José Roca (2013); Otros relatos, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo La Consevera, Ceutí, Spain, curated by Fernando Castro Flórez (2015); Bellos Jueves, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2015); and Libertad, Igualdad, Fatalidad, solo exhibition, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile (2016).

Throughout my career, I have received numerous recognitions, including grants from Fondart: Fondo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes, Government of Chile (CL, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2006, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018); Flora Ars Natura Residency (CO, 2013); Third Prize, Bienal de las Fronteras, Tamaulipas (Mexico, 2015); The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (NY, 2015); Solo Exhibition, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Chile (CL, 2016). Recent artist residencies include Hangar (Barcelona, 2018), Fabra i Coats (Barcelona, 2018–21), and Espacio de Todo by the collective Todo por la Praxis (Madrid, 2022).