Created for the reopening of the restored façade of Centro Cultural Perrera Arte, this large-scale stencil intervention commemorates Capitán, a German Shepherd who became an iconic presence within the cultural center and its surrounding community. Developed through a three-layer stencil system, the image emerges through successive applications of color, transforming mechanical repetition into a process of urban remembrance.

The work occupies a significant place within the artist’s ongoing relationship with Perrera Arte, a cultural institution historically associated with Santiago’s independent and underground art scene. Since the late 1990s, the space has functioned as a platform for experimental artistic practices, contributing to the development of alternative cultural networks within the city. Installed on the building’s renewed façade, the intervention establishes a dialogue between architectural restoration, collective memory and contemporary urban image-making.

Rather than depicting an anonymous animal, the portrait operates as a symbolic memorial. Through repetition, layering and scale, the work elevates a local story into a public image capable of preserving emotional and cultural memory within the urban landscape. The stencil process itself reinforces this condition, allowing the image to exist simultaneously as reproduction, monument and visual transmission system.

Positioned between street art, urban memorialization and image transfer processes, Capitán investigates how repeated visual structures can preserve the presence of individuals, places and communities long after their physical absence.