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Diego Borgsdorf Fuenzalida: Ya no son pilares
Diego Borgsdorf Fuenzalida’s exhibition, Ya no son pilares, is opening Friday, January 30th from 7-9pm. Experience this fusion of material, ethnographic research, and visual art surrounding the infrastructure of the Chilean dictatorship at VisArts in Rockville, MD.
About the artist
Diego Borgsdorf Fuenzalida is an experimental ethnographic researcher and textile artist based between Los Angeles and Washington, DC. His work addresses the affective dimensions of post-dictatorship life in Chile and the diaspora, using traditional Andean textile methods and enlisting materials critical in the formation of political violence in South America such as sheep’s wool, copper, and salt. He is currently a 2025-2027 Hamiltonian Artists Fellow (Washington, DC).
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