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sukinapan ‘Qing’ print was part of the 'RETROSPECT’ group exhibition and pop-up store held at Shell Space from 1-2 November, 2025.
Size: approx. 10” × 8”
sukinapan is an artist and game developer from Chile. She started getting into the world of retro graphics through pixel art, inspired by the video games she had played as a child. After discovering the pixel software Flipnote Studio for the 3DS, which only allows 6 basic colours, visual restrictions became a very important part of her work, experimenting on how to create interesting images while following limited pixel sizes or colour palettes. This later translated into also doing low-poly 3d modelling, and hunting for real life photo textures that could be "reincarnated" into a new form.
Most of her art in recent years is part of a narrative project called 'Peklo', about a character who is trapped in an afterlife limbo in the shape of a virtual city that nobody is allowed to leave. Originally inspired by a nightmare, it takes elements from the old web, Latin American religiosity and melancholy, and retro games with cute characters like Animal Crossing.
sukinapan ‘Qing’ print was part of the 'RETROSPECT’ group exhibition and pop-up store held at Shell Space from 1-2 November, 2025.
Size: approx. 10” × 8”
sukinapan is an artist and game developer from Chile. She started getting into the world of retro graphics through pixel art, inspired by the video games she had played as a child. After discovering the pixel software Flipnote Studio for the 3DS, which only allows 6 basic colours, visual restrictions became a very important part of her work, experimenting on how to create interesting images while following limited pixel sizes or colour palettes. This later translated into also doing low-poly 3d modelling, and hunting for real life photo textures that could be "reincarnated" into a new form.
Most of her art in recent years is part of a narrative project called 'Peklo', about a character who is trapped in an afterlife limbo in the shape of a virtual city that nobody is allowed to leave. Originally inspired by a nightmare, it takes elements from the old web, Latin American religiosity and melancholy, and retro games with cute characters like Animal Crossing.