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Joaquín Basualto

In this universe there is an inner planet where a government committed to art resides, which for unknown reasons possess this postmodern body,
that of a young man born in a town in southern Chile, which we will call Puerto Montt; already affected in his motor skills, at the age of 8, his
mother enrolled him in an oil painting workshop, since he showed a certain artistic sensitivity from a very young age.

At the age of 16, within the Puerto Monttina community, he was invited to participate in a play which takes his character to know a world
of adults with artistic stimuli that fascinated him.

In his life trajectory at the age of 19 he decided to change his southern daily life for stimuli of a neighboring metropolis promising fantasies.

Within his imaginary, performativity and aesthetic resources, he explores universes such as the transvestite, the gay archive, the Latin punk / pop / kitsch
culture and the Dadaism.

Currently he is studying his second academic year of arts at the University of Buenos Aires, altogether with classes in ceramics in the same city. https://www.instagram.com/lebasualte/?hl=es-la https://www.facebook.com/PASIVOINSURRECTO

Personal Reflection on the Pandemic

The pandemic restricted my path to adulthood in an unusual way,

I like to think of this compulsory alienation as a momentous step in the historical line of my life; of my life and vision of an artist within the "real"
but the truth is that my work is not handled on a real or academic plane.

My thing is from me to travel in artistic fantasy.

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