Bogotá, Colombia (1992)
I work as an independent artist, architect, exhibition designer, and educator in Chicago. I am interested in the specificity of spaces and creating critical materiality to respond to the ideologies that haunt and inhabit them. My work investigates the dynamics that build spaces (public and private) and questions the ideals of progress and systems produced by the built environment and colonization processes, especially in the Colombian and Latin American diasporas; work recurrently manifests in the invocation and burials of both physical and ideological structures.
plazal@saic.edu
@pablolazalaruiz
+573143569767
Bogotá, Colombia (1992)
I work as an independent artist, architect, exhibition designer, and educator in Chicago. I am interested in the specificity of spaces and creating critical materiality to respond to the ideologies that haunt and inhabit them. My work investigates the dynamics that build spaces (public and private) and questions the ideals of progress and systems produced by the built environment and colonization processes, especially in the Colombian and Latin American diasporas; work recurrently manifests in the invocation and burials of both physical and ideological structures.
symbolic embeded
Installation
Scaffold size: h 11.48 ft. x l 8.2 ft. x w
3.9 ft.
Liberia central contemporánea Gallery.
Bogotá, Co. | 2019
These scaffold
sections used in the gallery's construction a few years back return to the
building. Only this time, the scaffold is not used to assist in the gallery's
construction, but it is the gallery's structure that's holding it up. Welding,
sawing, and incrusting the scaffold to change its structural system made this
installation generate a symbiotic relationship with the gallery's building.
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