Juan Pablo Langlois Vicuña (26 September 1936−26 November 2019) was a Chilean architect dedicated to the sculpture and the installations art.
His first artistic stage was closely linked to architecture, conducting two-dimensional research around Op-art.
Later, he concentrated his artistic work on the practice of installation, leaving aside the traditional elements of art.
In 1969, he made the first installation of Chilean art, entitled Soft Bodies (Spanish language word from Soft Bodies) at the National Museum of Fine Arts (MNBA) —then directed by Nemesio Antúnez— in Santiago, which consisted of «paper-filled garbage bags that, joined together, formed a 300-meter sleeve that ran through various parts of the building».
In 1997, he presented her exhibition Miss at the MNBA, “«where the comic was inserted into the serious, the grotesque into the tragic, the pure into the impure, and the ugly into the beautiful», a recurring gesture in all of Langlois Vicuña's works.