
hector llanquin
Hector Llanquin (he/him) Chilean-born artist of Mapuche ancestry who lives and works in Brooklyn. He studied painting at the Universidad de Chile, a background that shapes his multidisciplinary practice in video, music, installation, and digital media.
His work reflects on the material and symbolic connections between the notion of technology and the elements that constitutes it generating work in a wide range of tangible and intangible media such as Video, Music, Painting and Installations.
He has exhibited his work internationally and has been collected by a variety of institutions such as Whitney Museum of Art or Espacio Byte in Argentina.
He often wonders how cities might appear if history had taken another turn. If indigenous cultures, rather than being interrupted by violence, had continued to invent, adapt, and fuse. Imagine New York not only as a site of endless images but as a fabric woven with Mapuche patterns, Amazonian geometries, Andean silhouettes.
The work engages with diffusion models as a way of opening a conversation with these new machines of vision, asking how technology dreams of bodies, of style, of presence. What emerges is uncanny and celebratory at once, an archaeology of possible fashions that never came to be yet somehow still resonate.
It is less about nostalgia than about speculation. A glimpse into parallel streets, a reappearance, a continuity that insists on being imagined.
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