Artist Statement

My artistic practice emerges as a means of exploring memory, the passage of time, and the complex relationship we have with our own existence. In each work, I layer sensations that still linger within me; they function as fragments of memories and emotions that surface during the creative process, evoking traces of history and wear. The pictorial gesture transforms into an extension of the body and the psyche, a tool for accessing what often remains hidden within lived experience. Painting presents itself as a space for inquiry and contemplation, where the visual enters into a silent dialogue with the emotional. Within that 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 of the world that surrounds 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.

Short Biography

Felipe Schiffrin is an artist born in Chile, 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. 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.