gt2P
Santiago, Chile
Founded in 2009, gt2P (great things to People) is a Chilean studio merging digital tools with traditional craft through a methodology called “paracrafting.” Led by Guillermo Parada, Tamara Pérez, Sebastián Rozas, and Victor Imperiale, their work spans collectible design, public art, and architecture. Projects include Suple Bounding Form Bench (Design Museum London), Conscious Actions (Miami), and two 2024 public installations in California. Their Remolten series explores volcanic materials as a sculptural medium. gt2P has exhibited at La Biennale di Venezia (2025), the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, and the National Museum of 21st Century Arts (MAXXI), with works held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Victoria, and the Denver Art Museum. Represented by Friedman Benda, they blend craft, code, and context.
Biennial Project
Project Overview
Los Porfiados (The Stubborns): A reflection on resilience and collective space.
Los Porfiados (The Stubborns) is a monumental inflatable sculpture inspired by the roly-poly toy, or mono porfiado in Chile. This soft, swaying form invites public interaction—moving only when touched, pushed, or played with. When activated, it creates a slow, shared choreography, transforming the space into a living public environment. Their shape recalls ancient tools and monuments, reimagined here as a playful, rounded body that balances and returns after every movement. The installation explores resilience not as rigidity, but as adaptability and collective balance. The work is incomplete without people. Like public space itself, Los Porfiados is built through presence, movement, and shared experience—where beauty lies not in the object, but in the gesture that brings it to life.
Previous work
Project Overview
Venue
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Address
840 N. Michigan Ave
Description
The Biennial expands its footprint downtown with the opening of its fifth site at 840 N. Michigan Avenue, transforming more than 65,000 square feet of space on the Magnificent Mile into a dynamic hub for art, design, and dialogue.
