# Event Details

- **Event Name**: "Guillermo Bert: Longing & Belonging" Opening
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 15 Nov, 2025 at 05:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Santa Monica, CA  - William Turner Gallery is pleased to present Longing & Belonging, the gallery’s first solo exhibition by Los Angeles–based artist Guillermo Bert, opening 5-8 PM November 15, 2025. This landmark exhibition brings together three major series spanning two decades of Bert’s practice—Warriors, Encoded Textiles, and Jacquard Punch Cards—each exploring the intersections of tradition, technology, and migration in the 21st century.

Born in Santiago, Chile, and based in Los Angeles, Bert transforms materials and digital media into cross-cultural artifacts that preserve stories often silenced by systems of displacement. His works fuse ancient craft traditions with augmented reality, QR codes, and 3D modeling, creating a poetic dialogue between the handmade and the high-tech.

In Warriors, Bert reimagines the ancient terracotta army of the Qin Dynasty as honor guard for today’s society, comprised of our essential workers and often unsung heroes—laborers, nurses, teachers, and farm workers. Each life-sized, laser-cut birch figure is modeled from 3D scans of real individuals, standing as a contemporary monument to endurance, dignity, and service. The precisely etched surfaces capture both fragility and strength, while an accompanying soundscape allows visitors to hear the workers’ own voices, grounding their stories in lived experience. Together, these figures form a resonant chorus of resilience—guardians not of emperors, but of the collective humanity that sustains us.

In Encoded Textiles, Bert collaborates with Indigenous artisans across the Americas to weave QR-coded patterns into traditional fabrics. When scanned, the codes reveal short films that share oral histories, poetry, and personal narratives—turning each textile into a living archive.

Finally, the Jacquard Punch Card series revisits one of the earliest coding technologies—the 17th-century punch card, developed for weaving patterns on the loom, which prefigured the computer by utilizing a binary code as a form of language. By burning portraits of immigrants into layered punch cards, Bert creates haunting hybrids of tapestry and code, weaving together the analog and the algorithmic, the historical and the contemporary.

Through these works, Bert explores how human identity and migration continue to be woven—literally and metaphorically—into the fabric of global modernity.

Guillermo Bert has exhibited widely in the United States and abroad, including: the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (currently in the group exhibition, Grounded); the Smithsonian Renwick Gallery; the Nevada Museum of Art (site of Bert’s first major museum exhibition in 2023, entitled The Journey); Museum of Latin American Art (which will hold a solo exhibition for Bert in 2026); and also currently exhibiting at the Rhode Island Museum of Art, as part of the museum’s recent acquisitions. His works are included in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Smithsonian Institution, the Rhode Island Museum of Art, and Museum of Latin American Art, amongst other important collections.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/santa-monica/guillermo-bert-longing-and-belonging-opening/200029133969426
- **Event Categories**: art, exhibitions, it, literary-art, entertainment
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 27

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Santa Monica
- **state**: CA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 2525 Michigan Avenue, Suite E-1, Santa Monica, CA, United States, California 90404
- **lat**: 34.02831
- **long**: -118.46765
- **full address**: 2525 Michigan Avenue, Suite E-1, Santa Monica, CA, United States, California 90404

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is "Guillermo Bert: Longing & Belonging" Opening being held?
  - **A:** "Guillermo Bert: Longing & Belonging" Opening takes place on Sat, 15 Nov, 2025 at 05:00 pm to Sat, 15 Nov, 2025 at 05:00 pm at 2525 Michigan Avenue, Suite E-1, Santa Monica, CA, United States, California 90404.
- **Q**: Who is organizing "Guillermo Bert: Longing & Belonging" Opening?
  - **A:** "Guillermo Bert: Longing & Belonging" Opening is organized by William Turner Gallery.
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  - **A:** "Guillermo Bert: Longing & Belonging" Opening is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Santa Monica, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If "Guillermo Bert: Longing & Belonging" Opening sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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