Artist Statement

My artistic practice arises as a means to explore memory, the passage of time, and the complex relationship we have with our own existence. In each work, I superimpose layers of sensations, both consciously and unconsciously retained, that continue to persist within me. These layers function as fragments of memories and emotions that emerge during the creative process, evoking traces of history and wear, and allowing me to establish a deeply intimate visual narrative.

The pictorial gesture becomes an extension of body and psyche, a tool to access what often remains hidden in lived experience. Painting emerges as a space for inquiry and contemplation, where the visual enters into a silent dialogue with the emotional. Within this dialogue, my aim is to unravel the folds of individual and collective memory, acknowledging the fragility of time and the way it shapes our perception of ourselves and the world around us.

My prior visual trajectory in cinema and photography provides a rich aesthetic, disciplinary, and technical repertoire, which I recognize as the foundation of sustained plastic maturity. In this continuum, painting appears as the space where all my formal and existential experiences converge.

I aspire for my works to be preserved with the rigor of museographic objects, capable of engaging in dialogue with institutional spaces and of being integrated into programs of slow contemplation. My practice does not seek fleeting visibility, but rather to endure within collections that understand painting as a form of material thought.

Biography

Felipe Schiffrin is a Chilean artist whose current work focuses on painting. He began his creative journey in film and photography, studying Audiovisual Communication at the University of Arts, Sciences and Communication (UNIACC). For nearly three decades, he developed an extensive career as a photographer and cinematographer, collaborating with record labels, fashion magazines, and advertising agencies.

Over time, his visual work became imbued with a deeper search, a personal process oriented toward introspection and contemplative practice. This inner path allowed him to reconfigure his relationship with the image and the creative act.

His painting is a way of exploring the limits between memory, time and perception, translating the passage through inner spaces into subtle forms.

He currently lives and works in Santiago, Chile.