Delivery System

Curators

Art Haxhijakupi

Artists

Felipe Pineda

What is the weight of a life in motion?
Not the physical mass but the emotional ballast...
the memories, the ghosts of landscapes, the fragile keepsakes that stand in for an entire history.

Delivery System, an exhibition of new work by Felipe Pineda, dissects this very question. It is a show about the architectures of movement and the archaeology of stasis; about the brutal poetry of the systems that move our world and the intimate, human freight they carry.

Pineda works like a geologist of the global. He takes the ephemera of transit / the shipping box, the lost-property form, the suitcase, and submits them to a process of petrification.

Large sculptures made from recycled international packaging, some with Jesmonite surfaces, stand not as representations. They are geological cores drilled from the bedrock of our hyper-mobile present. They are objects of transits arrested, transformed into heavy, silent monuments. This is where the global infrastructure of logistics collides with the vulnerability of the personal trajectory. The routes of a parcel and the routes of a person are parallel but only one is ever truly tracked.

In Belongings, this correspondence deepens. Stratified layers of original Royal Mail forms each one a bureaucrat's confession of failure pile up on wooden pallets like sedimentary rock. On top of them, replicas of personal items from the artist’s close South American friends in London: souvenirs, talismans, gifts. They are presented as fragments... their forms are the way memory itself is eroded by distance and bureaucracy.

The installation becomes a quiet, dispersed archive of what gets lost, what gets held onto and what becomes entangled in the cold mechanics of categorisation. The Mexican theorist Valeria Mata writes of "the emotional weight of the un-homed object" how a thing can become a dense node of belonging, a territory in itself when the original territory is lost. Pineda’s work is a physical manifestation of this theory.

The culmination of the exhibition, Heavy as a Mountain, makes this explicit. Casts from the artist's own migration suitcase cluster to form the silhouette of the Andes, the view from his window in Santiago. The landscape of origin is not left behind; it is reconstituted through the very vessel of its abandonment. The suitcase becomes a topographical memory. The mountain is carried, and in the carrying, it is remade.

Delivery System refuses the clean narrative of migration as a simple journey from A to B. Instead, Pineda maps a more honest, fractured reality: a condition of perpetual negotiation. He shows us that mobility is a system shaped not just by logistics and routes but by fragility, longing and the stubborn, persistent weight of what we call home.

This exhibition is supported by the Anglo-Chilean Society and produced in collaboration with Ají Press.

Felipe Pineda (1995) is a contemporary artist from Chile, and currently a student of the MFA Fine Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London. Through sculpture, installations, and relational objects, his practice explores the capacity and incapacity to relate to an “other,” grounded in systems of culture, communication, and exchange. Recently, his projects have addressed intersubjectivity, language, miscommunication, geographical and cultural distance, and movement across the globe.

His work has been presented in the United Kingdom, Mexico, Italy, Portugal, and Chile. Among his most notable solo exhibitions are Radio Sola at Espacio 550, Escuchar lo real, lo inaudito at Galería Espora, Armonías de proximidad at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Santiago, and Por alguna razón no se dijo nada at Espacio Vilches. He will also present solo exhibitions in 2026 at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Santiago and at Gemeinde Köln in Cologne.

He has participated in several residencies, including HANGAR in Portugal, Proyecto ERROR in Mexico City, UKNA in Derby (UK), and the Sculptures-Games residency at Nube Lab in Santiago. In 2025, he received an honorable mention from the Ca.Sa Award, and in 2023 he obtained an honorable mention in the Installation category of the Santiago Municipality Art Prize. Additionally, in 2025, his work was selected to enter the Ministry of Culture’s collection at the National Center for Contemporary Art of Chile.