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Nicolás Rupcich's work critically examines the objectification of the world through the digital medium, reflecting on technology's ability to reduce the sublime and empirical to mere data. In his most recent exhibition, Offline Islands at REITER Berlin, he presents a series of video installations and works developed over the past two years as a result of an artist’s residency in the Arctic Circle. These works primarily address themes related to image production in remote regions of our planet and the often-paradoxical nature of these processes.

Through his work, Rupcich confronts the material condition and the physical aspects of digital consumption, as well as their effects on our understanding of the natural world, prompting a re-evaluation of the intersection between the virtual and the real. Rupcich dissects and reflects on the impact of digital conventions on our daily lives, particularly regarding the role of the digital image in shaping our perception of reality.

His origins in southern Chile inform his relationship with landscapes in his work. He studied visual arts in Santiago and later completed a Meisterschülerstudium in Medienkunst at HGB in Leipzig. The artist has lived in Germany since 2012.