Domestic Architecture and Art Historical Translation
The House of Mosaics
Initiated in 2020 and continuously developed through 2025, The House of Mosaics is an ongoing architectural intervention that explores the relationship between domestic space, public visibility and art historical preservation. Rather than functioning as a conventional exhibition, the project transforms the house itself into a living support for image construction.
To date, the residence incorporates eleven large-scale mosaic works installed across its façades and architectural surfaces. Each intervention originates from significant works within the history of Chilean painting, creating a dialogue between nineteenth and twentieth-century visual culture and contemporary pixel-based mosaic systems.
The project includes reinterpretations of works by Camilo Mori, Pedro Lira and Alfredo Valenzuela Puelma, among other key figures of Chilean art history. Rather than reproducing the paintings literally, the images are reconstructed through modular mosaic structures that translate brushstrokes, color relationships and compositional systems into a new material language.
Operating between private property and public artwork, the house occupies an unusual position within the urban landscape. The building functions simultaneously as residence, gallery, archive and cultural landmark, allowing art historical imagery to exist outside traditional museum contexts while remaining permanently accessible from the street.
Within the broader context of PixelArt’s practice, The House of Mosaics represents one of the most ambitious examples of image migration. Paintings originally conceived for canvas migrate into architectural surfaces through mosaic construction, expanding from the scale of the artwork to the scale of the built environment.
The project also investigates duration and accumulation. Unlike temporary installations or event-based commissions, the intervention has evolved gradually over multiple years, with each new mosaic becoming part of a growing visual ecosystem embedded within the architecture itself.
As the collection continues to expand, the residence increasingly operates as a decentralized museum of translated images, demonstrating how historical artworks can acquire new forms of public life through contemporary material systems.
Curatorial Note
The House of Mosaics proposes architecture as a carrier of cultural memory. By relocating canonical paintings from museums and collections into the surfaces of a living residence, the project blurs the boundaries between artwork, archive, monument and everyday space. The house itself becomes an evolving image system where art history is continuously reconstructed through mosaic.
Image Migrations Within The House
The following works form part of the ongoing mosaic ecosystem developed throughout The House of Mosaics:
Each intervention originates from a different source image yet follows the same process of translation from painting to pixel system and from pixel system to architectural mosaic.