I’m Felipe Villamil, an artist from Bogotá, Colombia, and a member of the collective Villamil and Villamil. My practice examines the tension between appearance and function, how things look versus what they are. Inspired by the Potemkin village concept, I work with systems that propose one reality while concealing another, showing how perception can be redirected and how image and reality fall into tension. I create site-specific projects through painting, object fabrication, installation, and projection. My current research looks at sonideros or picos in Mexico and Colombia, DIY sound systems built within communities to transform streets into spaces for dance parties. In this project, I repurpose a transformer box into a functioning speaker, using an everyday urban object to produce sound and host a party. Transformer boxes, for example, power electrical grids but also become places to lean, hide, or find shade, forms that carry one function yet embody another in lived experience. Through this work, I explore the collision of two universes within a single object, creating new readings and meanings.