Fabiola Morcillo is a Chilean visual artist whose practice lies at the intersection of architecture and digital art. Her work is deeply shaped by her academic training, but also by a personal quest that blends philosophy, intuition, and life experience.
She uses digital tools typical of technical drawing to construct her visual universe, shifting software traditionally associated with architectural precision into an expressive and poetic realm.
Her works are characterized by the creation of fictional and imaginary spaces, influenced as much by Eastern architecture as by contemporary aesthetics such as pop or vaporwave.
In this series of illustrations, Fabiola employs isometric perspectives to build minimalist scenes, where the absence of traditional depth reinforces a sense of unreality. Over a diamond grid —a mesh that evokes both technical drawing and digital environments— forms and objects rise, arranged to configure a symbolic space rather than a functional one.
Classical elements such as Doric columns, semicircular arches, and staircases appear decontextualized and fragmented, functioning more as signs than as structures of a work in progress. The totemic presence of animals evokes guardians, as if they were protecting a secret portal. These are not physically inhabitable spaces, but rather spaces that operate as metaphors for the inner world.
Technic thus presents itself as a dreamlike threshold: a ceremonial space suspended between the architectural and the digital, between the rational and the spiritual.
Born in Santiago, Chile in 1989, also known by her artistic pseudonym 1989, is an architect and visual artist who graduated from the University of Chile. Her practice is notable for her innovative use of digital art through AutoCAD, a technique that has defined her distinctive minimalist style. Her national and international career includes solo and group exhibitions such as those at Galería Cima (Chile, 2026), Sagrada Mercancía (Chile, 2026), Elástica at Galería Cima (Chile, 2018), Lights of Chile at 193 Gallery (Paris, 2018), Fuga at Galería Liam (Chile, 2023), and Crecimiento at 59 Rivoli (Paris, 2024). In 2019, she was nominated by ArchDaily for the Young Architects Program at MoMA PS1. In addition to her visual art, she has explored the multimedia scene as a VJ at festivals such as Lollapalooza Chile and Recreo, establishing a practice that fuses the technical precision of architecture with contemporary visual aesthetics.
