// ABOUT
Since 2012, PixelArt has developed a multidisciplinary practice investigating how digital imagery can persist beyond the screen through pixel-based construction, urban interventions, architectural installations and material systems.

Working between contemporary art, digital culture and public space, the practice examines the migration of images across media, scales and temporalities. Classical paintings, historical figures, internet iconography and fragments of collective memory are translated into physical pixel structures capable of occupying, transforming and activating urban environments.

Between 2009 and 2011, PixelArt lived in Paris’s 13th arrondissement, near Place d’Italie, during a period in which the neighborhood was rapidly becoming one of Europe’s most significant open-air laboratories for contemporary urban art. Immersed in this environment, and particularly influenced by the emergence of urban mosaic practices pioneered by French artist Invader, he began to understand the pixel not simply as a digital unit of information but as a potential material structure capable of inhabiting public space.

Returning to Chile, this experience evolved into an independent visual language that transformed the pixel into a construction system operating across architecture, urban intervention and collective memory. Years later, this dialogue with France would come full circle through exhibitions, media features and projects developed in Paris, including collaborations presented alongside renowned artist Fabio Rieti and the installation created at the historic residence of Serge Gainsbourg.

// GRID LOGIC
Underlying these projects is a persistent grid logic. Whether operating through mosaic tesserae, stencil structures, plotter drawings, NFTs or digital archives, the work relies on systems of repetition and modular construction where images emerge pixel by pixel through the accumulation of discrete units.

// IMAGE PERSISTENCE
At the center of this work lies a long-term investigation into image persistence. Rather than treating images as static representations, PixelArt approaches them as living cultural entities that continuously disappear, return and acquire new meanings through circulation, reconstruction and repetition.

// SYMBOLIC INVOCATION
Many of these interventions operate as acts of symbolic invocation. Through the reconstruction of cultural icons, artistic archetypes and collective visual memories, the work seeks to reactivate dormant presences within contemporary space. These gestures function less as tributes than as encounters, establishing a dialogue between historical memory, material permanence and the invisible networks through which images continue to influence collective experience.
Across mosaics, stencils, urban occupations, architectural commissions, generative systems and digital collections, the practice constructs a distributed visual archive where pixels become vessels of memory and urban space becomes a site of symbolic transmission.

// INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION
The international dimension of this research was first acknowledged through publications such as Mosaic Art Now, which introduced PixelArt’s urban mosaic interventions to a global audience and described the work as a contemporary continuation of the dialogue opened by Invader’s pioneering street mosaics. This recognition would later culminate in PixelArt’s inclusion in the 2022 special edition of Mosaïque Magazine dedicated to eighty of the most influential contemporary mosaic artists worldwide, positioning the practice within the international conversation surrounding contemporary mosaic, urban intervention and post-digital image culture.