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The artworks on display are a logbook of the invisible: phenomena that deal with an elusive reality; a reality that can be perceived just through its potentials of being. Santillán’s eagerness for the unspoken, for unwritten events, acquires shape as art. The heteromorphic nature of his works discloses the various encounters of the artist, who undertook several journeys to secluded points on planet Earth, to chart realities apparently eclipsed.

In Bermeja (2017), Santillán reached the coordinates of an island broadly included in major nautical maps until the mid 20th century, when several …