Oscar Santillán

Oscar Santillán (Milagro, Ecuador – 1980) His education began in the early 2000’s as a self-taught artist in his native Ecuador. Those formative times were deeply shaped by working within collective environments. Throughout the years those experiences have remained alive in his practice in the form of collaborations with scientists and other curious minds. In 2011 he obtained an MFA in Sculpture from VCU—Virginia Commonwealth University, in the US; and, consequent fellowships have allowed him to be an artist-in-residence at Skowhegan (US), Jan van Eyck (NL) Ratti Foundation (IT), Delfina Foundation (UK), and Leiden Astronomical Observatory (NL). More recently, he have been one of the igniters setting ‘órbitat’ in motion, a platform for the encounter of art, science, and technology in Latin America. ...

LLANO is a Mexican platform focused on artists whose production is the result of long-term research. Their body of work is often related to science, history, technology as well as forgotten wisdom and unforeseen communities. LLANO highlights thought processes and thorough research, creating crosspoints and strong bonds with the work from an immersive standpoint. It aims to take the spectator beyond traditional exhibition formats and deeper into the original source of the work. LLANO is an all-around project where exhibition space evolves into many shapes: from an open field in the top of a former textile factory in Mexico City to volcanos, jungles, deserts, oceans, mountains, as well as urban landscapes and historical landmarks. The diverse projects it presents begin as expeditions that go directly into the context that sourced inspiration and information for the artist and are the natural niches to where the work belongs. LLANO’s intention is to build bridges between the spectator and the profound reasons that hold artworks together, in order to experiment art from a new and different standpoint, both literally and symbolically. ...