Emiliano Sepulveda is an immigrant visual artist of
Mexican descent based in Vancouver. He is fascinated by how the world is
encountered through perception, and his work is a constant practice of
creating models for understanding and interacting with this world. This
process-based practice incorporates simple actions such as walking or
kite-flying as ritual practice and is heavily informed by photography.
For Sepulveda photography also functions as an uncanny, magical,
performative, and sculptural medium. He holds a BFA from Emily Carr
University and an MFA from Simon Fraser University.
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I am an artist, who is from many places, which are connected to many histories that are connected to many places and people who are from or connected to many places as well, even when they're not. My identity, entangled with places near and far, and the identity of
places near and far, is what motivates my artistic practice. Deeply
distrustful of artist bios, which I believe offer up nothing of use or
substance, I instead offers these words:
Time moves one - Huitzilopochtli looks over my shoulder
Quetzalcoatl looks at his watch
"habla"
a scratch parallax
an awl a ray
a scrawl a star
an act that marks a walk
AZTLAN attracts
an anagram
la raza maps
