In the words of the curator...Pablo Aravena

For the first time in North America, Chile Estyle will showcase work from a comprehensive selection from the top tier of Chile’s contemporary urban muralists.

Whilst making NEXT: A Primer on Urban Painting (Rotterdam International Film Festival 2006), my documentary film about the global culture of street art, I travelled to many of the world’s street art capitals. Upon returning to my native Chile after an eight year hiatus, I was amazed and delighted by the quality and development of the art form there. I spent time with many of the leading figures in the Chilean scene and I was able to gain and share insights and viewpoints on the global and local aspects of the movement. I realized that we Chileans had a long history in this art form and that my generation had taken those traditions and built a strong community that was rooted in our past yet evolving in the present into the future. Through my exploration of the Chilean street art world, I discovered things I did not know about my own culture and my country’s history.

Goes to show how vast the "cross-cultural" perspective goes...