Ignacio Gatica (b. 1988, Santiago, Chile) will use the Grant to produce Sanhattan, a video work that offers a poetic-documentary reflection on the development of Santiago's financial centre and its link to Wall Street culture in New York. Filmed in both cities, the project explores how the economic doctrine imposed on Chile by the Chicago Boys since the late 1970s has impacted today's globalised society. It will feature a soundtrack by Nicolás Carcavilla, poems by Ileana Elordi and interviews with Chilean academics, journalists and sociologists such as Liliana De Simone, Eugenio Tironi and Sergio Parra, among others. The work will be exhibited as a large-format installation in New York in 2026.

Ignacio Gatica works with installations, drawings, sculpture, video and text. His practice reveals unexpected connections between the signs and signifiers of the economic and social structures that determine everyday life. With a focus on the languages of the financial world, spaces of exchange, consumer cultures and the global systems that shape cities, his work intertwines the personal and the collective. Among his solo exhibitions include: Playa Privada at Galería Patricia Ready (Chile, 2025), Sujeto Cuantificado at Von Ammon Co. (Washington, 2023), Stones Above Diamonds at Cooper Cole (Toronto, 2021), 13:28 at Fundación Marso (Mexico, 2019), TAANSTAFL: There is no such thing as a free lunch in Interstate Projects (New York, 2019). His work has been featured in group exhibitions at institutions such as Sculpture Center (2022), the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College (2022) and El Museo del Barrio (2017), in New York. Lives and works between Santiago and Brooklyn.