Francisco Baquerizo-Racines’ practice constructs visual worlds grounded in specific realities, shaped by tensions between center and periphery, legality and illegality, and visibility and appropriation. He is interested in historical repetition and how it is mediated through relational processes. His work often begins with drawing and expands into archival research, moving-image, installation, and collaborative formats. He explores “mestizo” identities and informal appropriations (piracy) of dominant imagery, approaching extractivism as both a material practice and a cultural logic, often through a playful, hyperreal lens.