Alberto Vitelio develops objects that stand out for the use and discovery of new artisanal processes and techniques, deeply linked to Chile’s culture

​Alberto Vitelio was born in Santiago de Chile in 1990, in a newly installed democracy after 17 years of military-civic dictatorship. This period's cultural blackout, persecution, and censorship endowed the artistic scene with a profoundly dissident and anti-establishment voice. From 1990 onwards, art in Chile remained on the margins, while the territory became the laboratory for Milton Friedman's neoliberal politics.

From a young age, Alberto showed a deep interest in nature's mysteries. Archaeological vestiges, fossils, lava, and all the shapes and colors spread over the earth's surface. It is no coincidence that his work evokes a mysterious, silent cave-like aesthetic but is also magnetic and imposing. Unintentionally, Vitelio breaks with the sanitized and rigid notion of beauty and gives rise to an intimate experience that confronts us with a magnetism that stirs our entrails. What seems viscous, shiny, rigid, and at the same time fluid confronts us with what human nature seeks to silence: our own darkness.