Ernesto Bautista (Santa Ana, El Salvador, 1987) is a writer, filmmaker, and visual artist. He is the co-founder of Curatorial Cinema, The Fire Theory, and Burn and Die Films. His work reflects a constant clash between the poetic and the social, encompassing film projects, research, and pedagogy. He has participated in numerous international exhibitions, and his film projects have been presented in Belgium, Costa Rica, Peru, Zimbabwe, China, Canada, Colombia, and the USA. He has participated in SITAC IX Nodos (Mexico) and the ARCUS Project Residency Program (Japan). He received the Mundi Fellowship at Flora Ars Natura (Colombia) and the Emerging Artists Fellowship at the Santa Fe Art Institute, Harpo Foundation (USA). Recent publications include Contemporary Languages of Central America by Luisa Fuentes Guaza and YES. Colección Arte Contemporáneo en El Salvador. His work is part of the collections of Museo Reina Sofía (Spain), the Illy Art Collection (Italy), MAMBO (Colombia), and private collections. He currently works and produces between El Salvador, Colombia, and Mexico.

During the residency, he worked on a trilogy of video works filmed between Bolivia and Uruguay, which will be presented as part of a solo exhibition in 2026. In this context, he developed the script for La Historia del Mar, the third film in the trilogy, and carried out lighting and camera tests in José Ignacio and at the Maldonado Arboretum.