JUAN PABLO BAHAMONDE
The first nest I built for me,
and rapidly people wanted to enter.
So I built nests for people to inhabit,
—Medellín, Valparaíso, Lüneburg, Toulouse, Granada—,
And it was bigger than we.
Then I made a hundred hearts
With my hands
One by one
For people to find
and accept
through an open exchange
as a symbol of oneself.
And each heart found home.
Then I made a golden egg
for people to fill with seeds,
and for protection
we incrusted it far inside
our endangered natural park.
This last episode of the big gold-luster ceramic egg, I made during the pandemic.
I live and work in Viña del Mar, Chile. About my practice I'd say that I like proposing variations on possibilities. To take from the ample field of experience, the knowledge to activate possibilities that propose different angles on what is known. In particular I am interested in the activation of objects/places/beings through action, memory, storytelling. When I choose a material I am interested in the relational system it brings attached. I usually prioritize a mineral and vegetal origin, over animal and synthetic. Beyond specific materials or procedures, I choose what serves as medium and host to the ideas I search and promote.