Large-scale mosaic intervention focused on Salvador Dalí’s fragmented gaze, later destroyed within public space. The disappearance of the work directly originated El Renacer, a monumental reconstruction expanding the image into a larger system of symbolic persistence and urban resurrection.

Installed in Santiago as part of the artist’s ongoing investigation into fragmented perception and pixel-based portraiture, La Mirada Alucinada II represented a significant evolution of the Salvador Dalí imagery first explored in earlier urban interventions. Constructed through thousands of individually placed glass tesserae, the work transformed Dalí’s iconic gaze into a large-scale public image oscillating between abstraction and recognition.

The intervention continued the artist’s exploration of symbolic invocation, using Dalí not simply as a historical figure but as a vehicle for investigating perception, memory and the persistence of images within contemporary visual culture. Through pixelation and distance-based reconstruction, the portrait emerged gradually within the urban landscape, inviting viewers to actively participate in the process of recognition.

The destruction of the mosaic marked a decisive moment in the artist’s practice. Rather than ending the life of the image, its disappearance initiated a new phase of development. The loss of the work became the conceptual foundation for El Renacer, a monumental reconstruction that expanded the original composition into a much larger urban structure, transforming destruction itself into part of the artwork’s narrative.

Today, La Mirada Alucinada II occupies a unique place within the artist’s body of work as both a completed intervention and the origin point of one of his most ambitious urban projects. The work stands as a powerful example of image persistence, demonstrating how visual ideas can survive the disappearance of their physical form and re-emerge through new material configurations.