Sebastián Bustamante, Wales

“El Otoño” (“the Autumn”) addresses these questions and contributes to discussions on identity following displacement. Forced migration continues at an alarming rate with one of its maximum expressions in the refugee crisis in Europe today. 

Sebastián is a British Chilean artist-photographer, curator and researcher based in Abergavenny Wales. Sebastián has exhibited in various venues in the UK including in London, Essex and Bristol and has had his photography published in news media. He has also had his academic research on art published in peer-reviewed academic journals, online academic blogs. Sebastián's principal focuses in his work are on memory, place, archives, and identity. In 2006 he began a longitudinal transnational project exploring his identity and the legacies of dictatorships in Latin America utilising archival materials and his photography, incorporating his scholarship on the interstice between art, memory, and activism.