PETRA

Espacio O Gallery, 2025 (Santiago,Chile)

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Digital Photography / 3D Printing

PETRA proposes an inverted cultural mirror: Latin inscriptions—collected by the artist as a flâneur among Rome’s stones andruins—coexist with abbreviations from the digital lexicon, an immaterial,portable code. From this collision emerges a hybrid, deliberately cryptic language: half-legible to both classicists and digital natives, yet always traversed by gaps, irony, and disorientation.

The pieces appear as false ruins: 3D-printed stones that mimic marble—optical traps that seduce with solemnity and, up close, reveal their artifice. What seems like relic is a copy; what promises permanence is,in fact, an ephemeral, plastic material.

The project engages with tourist Rome, where the past becomes scenery and the visitor a consumer of images. Against the selfie andthe souvenir, the figure of the traveler—committed to the place—slips to the margins. PETRA thus challenges the viewer: What do we see when we look at the past? What do we preserve, and what do we trivialize? Between faux marble and a dead tongue, digital acceleration and contemporary amnesia, the series opens a poetic, uneasy terrain where the possibility of genuine connection measures itself against its simulacrum.

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Digital Photography serie

Fine Art print on 310g acid-free cotton paper.

32.5 X 37.5 cm

Edition of 3

- DENUM VIBE RATIO / OOTD, 2025

- EFFFIGIEM SUAM / TBT / LOL, 2025

- FOMO / OMG / HAUL, 2025

- MEMENTO MORI /SMH /ASAP, 2025

3D Printing serie

PLA 3D printing

Edition of 3