An homage to Gastón Ugalde from his children.

There are artists who leave behind works, and there are artists who leave behind traces.

Gastón’s mark is etched in salt, in the wind, on city walls, and in the eyes of those who knew him. His art was never confined to the canvas—it was action, ritual, defiance, and terrain. It was life itself.

From a very young age, we accompanied him on his experimental journeys, in his silences before the landscape, and in his joy when a new idea emerged. We learned that, for him, there was no separation between art and existence: everything was part of the same creative pulse.

The Salar de Uyuni was his temple and his mirror; the camera, his ally; textiles, a way to tell the story of the Andes and the Amazon from a place both intimate and ancestral.

“Revealed Territories” is not just an exhibition. It is an emotional map of his universe. We have gathered works that have rarely been seen in Bolivia, yet were central to his artistic journey. Each piece speaks of his vision of time, identity, land, body, and memory.

This exhibit unfolds as he lived: intensely, on multiple levels. Indoors and outdoors, in stone and salt, in matter and in light. It spans from textile sculptures to participatory actions, such as March for Life, a piece born from social pain that became a symbol of collective hope.

The title “Revealed Territories” refers to his unique ability to see the invisible—to find meaning where others saw emptiness. His art revealed both physical territories—the highlands, the Amazon, the city, the body—and symbolic ones: ritual, memory, the political, the sacred.

As his children and curators of this exhibition, we wanted to honor him not through nostalgia, but through continuity. This exhibit is an invitation to walk through his legacy as one walks barefoot on salt: with respect, with wonder, with love.

Because if Gastón taught us anything, it’s that all is all is art.

—Canela and Mariano Ugalde