Gefen Gallery

Born in 1979 on the island of Chiloé, Chile, into a family of sailors, Franco Salas Borquez maintains a lifelong relationship with the sea—both its beauty and its danger. Initially distinguished as a national chess champion at age thirteen, he later turned his discipline and focus toward art. After moving to France, where his career began to take shape, his early seascapes quickly gained recognition and entered institutional collections in 2010. Working from a personal archive of oceanic imagery, Salas Borquez approaches painting as a space of memory and spontaneity, translating the shifting nature of the sea into a contemporary pictorial language.

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