Art: Felipe Brugués

Studio Practice

Outside economics, I keep an amateur visual art practice. I enjoy working with ceramics, sculpture, installation, robotics, and sound, often using data and computational techniques to explore the political economy of the Americas. My work has been shown in galleries and biennales across the Americas and supported by arts grants.

01 · Exhibitions

Solo Exhibition at Galería Q

Quito, Ecuador · solo show

Project details coming soon.

Collaborators Departamento de Análisis y Tratamiento Avanzado · Juan Carlos León & Valentín Jadot

2027

Sound Piece at Museo Jumex

Mexico City, Mexico · museum night

Ambient sound piece made from audio samples of Andean curative plants, with some animal guests. The piece accompanies a reading by Juan Carlos León.

Collaborators Departamento de Análisis y Tratamiento Avanzado · Juan Carlos León & Valentín Jadot

2026

Multimedia Art Biennale at Centro de Arte Contemporáneo

Quito, Ecuador · group exhibition

The White House is an automated installation on state violence against migrants. As visitors enter, facial-recognition algorithms, echoing the surveillance tools of Palantir and Babel Street, profile and track them, sorting bodies into a space divided between white and non-white. A robotic arm, fitted with an ICE-style air marker, sequentially targets and expels 21,744 orange dots across the room (one for each person removed from the country every month), mapping separated lives and leaving accumulated physical traces on the floor.

Collaborators Departamento de Análisis y Tratamiento Avanzado · Juan Carlos León & Valentín Jadot

2025

Future | Money · Open Studio

San José, Costa Rica · group exhibition

Economic Agendas to (Get Rich and) Stop Worrying About the Future uses state-of-the-art computational economics to simulate the counterfactual outcomes of pop-motivational financial advice. The recipes promised by best-selling self-help and personal-finance literature are tested inside an economic model: if everyone followed them, where would we end up? The resulting data is encoded into clay vessels, 3D-printed layer by layer: asking whether these formulas could ever deliver financial inclusion for all.

Collaborators Juan Carlos León & Ana Rodríguez

2023

List Gallery

Providence, United States · group exhibition

Democracies can collapse quickly. Binaries is an installation and sound piece that traces the evolution of Rafael Correa's political speech (2007–2016) through machine learning, carving his words into five high-impact polycarbonate anti-riot shields; the same shields once raised against environmental activists and indigenous communities. At a distance, Correa's words dissolve into an ethereal mix: a dream, or a nightmare?

Collaborators Andrea García