“Pact of silence”

The Chilean artist can be described as a poet who discourses on the humanization of utopias. His work, which often borders on the imaginary, deals with political and humanitarian questions, and is based on memory. His installations and photographs deal with political facts about exile and portray the facts based on the discontinuity of memory.

The landscapes that always appear in his works are seen as imaginary geo-poetic spaces. Enrique works with contemplative elements, such as water, sand, smoke and glass. His methodology is, in a way, a human topography. Several works are reports and interviews of people who feel displaced. Excerpts from these reports are chosen and, when combined with photographs, form poems. According to the artist: “visual texts operate, at the same time, as image and imaginary.”

His most recent solo exhibitions are: "The Continents", at the Michel Rein Gallery, Brussels; "The Sleeping Things, the Sweet Sea", at the Matta Cultural Center, Buenos Aires; "Time, Spirit, the World", Amparo Museum, Mexico; "The Sleeping Things", Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago, Chile; "Remains of the Sea", Dieecke Gallery, Santiago, Chile; "The Sleeping Things", Les Modules, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France; "The Continents" at the Michel Rain Gallery, Brussels; among others. In 2014, he won the EFG Bank & Artnexus Acquisition Prize. Enrique participated in the Sesc_Vídeobrasil 2016, Southern Panoramas – which had a special 30th anniversary edition and combined new works with highlights from 1983 – with the work Pacífico.